Your Questions About Download Old Movies Online

Nagesh answers:

The Wii. I own it.

The Wii is good fun. I have had one since launch day (yes I was one of those dorky campers). I have to say that while Wii Sports was a lot of fun – it really lacks in a good library of games. The interface with some games is good but I find that the motion control actually hinders usability in some instances.

I will say that the wii is great of group activity. If you like to have people over and hang out and play games – the wii is definitely helpful there. It is the most accessible for new users (at least wii sports – mario party – and Rayman Raving Rabbits. If you want to use it for that purpose – the Wii is your pick. It is not a graphics intensive piece of machinery but it is good fun. We still play wii sports when certain people come over.

Also – the Wii plays ALL GAMECUBE GAMES. That means any great gamecube game you wished you could play – you can with the Wii. You only need a gamecube controller.

One other thing of note – the accessories make the machine expensive. With it is 250 with 1 controller and 1 nunchuk – it gets pretty expensive if you want 4 controllers and 2 nunchuks. I don’t recommend 4 nunchuks as I haven’t encounter that need yet.

BTW my 10 year old niece is able to set it up. Just connect the AV cables to the appropriate color slots on your TV. Just like a dvd player.

The PS2. I own it.

If you’re new to video games – no system has more games out than the PS2. You could play games for years with the great games that are out – each one only costing 20 bucks or so. Yes the graphics are outdated – but if you’re not used to the newer graphics – then you wont miss it anyway. Also – if you don’t have an HD TV or plans to buy one – the PS2 is a good choice. It is inexpensive – is still getting new games – has a back catalog of some of the best games ever made

It is by far the most cost effective system to get. While you wont have the latest and greatest – it does have a great library of games. The daughter – if she is aware of the other options – probably wont be happy with this choice – but it does have quite a bit of – albiet old- great games.

I don’t play my ps2 anymore except for Shadow of the Colossus

The Xbox 360 – I own it.

This is my pick. The graphics are astounding. Think PS2 cutscences and you have some Xbox 360 games. The online (which costs money ) is a clean slick user interface and is constantly undergoing improvements. The Xbox library isn’t completely backwards compatible but it is adequate – and I don’t play those games much anyway. As of a couple of days ago – you can even download some original xbox games.

The Xbox is still mostly a hardcore gamer’s console but it is diversifying. There is the arcade with casual games like bejeweled and hexic – and classic games like Pacman and Digdug. You have amazing graphics and stellar online play. They also have tv show/movie downloads and free demos.

I have been most impressed with the 360. I love the Wii but I play the 360 much more often. My wife and I play it often (we play tetris splash one on one) Also – my brother and dad have 360s and we play together on team sports. My dad doesn’t like the twitch gaming so much but there are games for older gamers or more causal gamers that require less twitchy hand eye coordination.

Also – one last feature is the xbox live vision camera. My dad and I teleconference on holidays to trade presents. I know a computer can do the same thing – but it’s a pretty cool perk.

I definitely recommend an HDTV with the 360. You don’t have to have one – I didn’t for my first year – but it greatly enhanced the experience.

NOTE ABOUT ONLINE PLAY: It really isn’t for everyone. I have built a pretty good friends list so I tend to play with more mature – less racists/sexist gamers – but you’ll still encounter them.

PS3:

I do not own a ps3 and thus no qualified to give a true recommendation. I have heard good things and bad things about it. It’s online is free – but it is supposedly inferior to the 360’s. I honestly think the price is too high and am waiting for a price drop.

Anyway – good luck and let me know if you have any additional questions.

Nagesh answers:

Star Wars galaxies is an online RPG and is subscription only on the PC.
Knights of the old republic 1 and 2 are single player RPG’s only (not online) but are both excellent games but they are set in a timeline way before any of the movies.
You can build your own lightsabre’s and gather a team of characters to quest along side you.
Also they have been out a while now so you could pick them up relativeley cheap.

Nagesh answers:

It’s possible to do a core2duo system for a bit more than 500…well, closer to 600. In any case, if you’re not looking for a real gaming system you could get a lot of milage out of an older 875chipset canterwood board with a pentium d processor. Gigabyte made a few different canterwoods that performed well. Asus also had a few rated pretty well. It’ll have the older ICH5 southbridge but it’s still a decent enough board. USB2.0, SATA headers, GB Lan, 6.1 Audio, RAID (on some models), PCI-X (you won’t find sli on that chipset though)

Match that up with any mid-range graphics (the canterwood did have pci-xpress but no sli) I’m sure you can find a decent priced geforce pci-x card easy enough. There’s always sales running on dvd burners and any other small things like that. Just poke around the weekly ads or check online price comparisons. I wouldn’t worry too much about name brand dvd burners or small items like that. Mainly you want a quality power supply (maybe antec or similar), motherboard (several decent brands), and memory. Check out some of the benchmarks and run throughs on this site
http://www.tomshardware.com
all kinds of reviews on everything you’d be looking for.

The real money is gonna come in how much ram you put in there. If your plan is to install vista then it’ll be significant. The problem is if you’re not looking for the sale of the month components that dell and gateway will give you then you’ll be paying extra for corsair or crucial ram sticks.

The other option is to look at a website that offers decent components.
Http://www.ibuypower.com is one of the better ones.
They have all kinds of options and you can specifiy the manufacturer for most of the important components. If you take the time to download windows they’ll even save you the cost by letting it ship without the operating system. Probably do a core2 duo system for around $650 with halfway decent components and a 1 year warranty.

Nagesh answers:

Is your video an AVI file?

Later versions of Windows Media Player dropped support for AVI some time ago (Microsoft didn’t want to pay licensing fees or somesuch and were more interested in promoting their own WMV format) but you could download additional codec packs which provided AVI support. The problem is that many of the free codec downloads which exist online are either corrupt, unstable or sometimes even malware posing as codecs.

Many people who had older XP systems which played AVI’s just fine, discovered their newer systems with Vista, didn’t.

The easiest solution for AVI playback is to download a player which supports AVI – The VLC media player or DivX player are a couple of good ones which play AVIs and just about every other movie format, too.

Nagesh answers:

It’s a bit of a dead-end lately. Seriously.

I don’t play PC games and don’t deal with first-person-shooter nonsense. That sort of game just draws way too many rude, sociopathic sorts of people. Not to mention, these are PC games where you _have to_ fuss over every little doodad on a keyboard or controller–these programmers make the games way too fiddly and complicated on purpose.

I don’t play online flash games anymore, and especially don’t play the post-Zynga crap. Too linear, too much about the walkthrough, and WAY too much about pestering people ENDLESSLY for that micro-transaction that hardly does anything. Those games exist to promote spam, nothing more.

And the Wii/body-motion gaming doesn’t interest me. Again, too much of it is linear, fiddly crap.

Ok, so maybe I’m too old-school about it and hardly remember how much of a _pain_ many old-school arcade games were, even with a joystick and proper controls. Maybe I am.

Even so…..too many video games just plain seem _engineered_ to suck or to be counter-intuitive _on purpose_. Why people pay for that is beyond me. After a while, the movie-grade photo-realism gets really _REALLY_ old, when you can’t win one damned thing without paying through the nose for it.