Entertainment ... too much ?

A recent survey was conducted that "ranks markets according to the ownership and usage levels of 11 entertainment devices, including television sets, CD players and high-definition Blu-ray players".

Singapore came in 2nd, after Ireland. You can read the details here.

I am not surprised - I myself have several gadgets like macbook, iphone, mp3 player, nintendo ds, gps, etc, etc. Even though I am at home most of the time, I am seldom free. So if you find I haven't been updating my blog as I should be, I should be busy playing with one of these items.

This week, I was deeply engrossed with my iphone firmware upgrade. Before I plunge further, I looked to my best friend Google to learn more about how things work. So I spent my time improving my knowledge on iphone too. Maybe I am slave to all these, but without them, life seem so boooooring *yawn*

To make things more exciting, we recently got a HDTV and we are still figuring out how it works. We just discovered that we don't need the cable set-top box anymore. Its like you could watch ESPN on Starhub cable without plugging your TV to the Motorola box at home. And we also learnt that HD channels are not the same as digital channels. HD shows are screened in 1080p (pixels) which means sharper image whereas, digital is just referring to the way TV signals transmit.

And US is upgrading all national TV channels to digital tranmission on Feb 17 2009. So to tune in to one of these, we press 5.1 on our TV remote controller (Yes, there is a button with "." on it). Till now I can't find the official channel listing used in HDTV, so we have to keep pressing "channel +/-" to get to the right one.