Showing posts with label Personal Electronics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal Electronics. Show all posts

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Trying to Decide On What's My Next Game Console

I have to admit, I don't have a lot of time for gaming these days. I have even less desire to waste money on the next wave of content whose format won't live more than a couple of years. It's one of the reasons why I'm starting to second guess my choice of buying Blu Ray movies when cloud-based content is starting to take off. Frankly, the only use case that doesn't push me more completely in that direction is the sometimes-connected state I find myself in. If that were to go away, I'd be completely cloud-based though I have to admit the pricing model for that content still doesn't match my expectations.

With the holidays coming up, I am beginning to wonder if it isn't time for a new gaming console. I have both an Xbox 360 and a PS/3. The latter was purchased originally as a player for Blu Ray and secondarily as a gaming console. To be honest, the games I have for the PS/3 are very few. As a gaming platform it just never took off; at least not for me. The Xbox 360 on the other hand offered good games. So alas I ended up with two consoles. Not my preference but done out of necessity to get the best of both worlds.

So now I'm back to my quest for deciding between the latest/greatest platform. Should I get the Xbox One or the new PlayStation? Not sure yet, but given that the Xbox will play Blu Ray tells me I can consolidate down to one console. Finally - Yes! I'll be doing some more reviewing and considering, but I know me - in the end I'll probably stick with Xbox because let's face it - I pretty much use every other piece of Microsoft technology out there so what's one more?

Edit:
Seems that Vudu.com is helping to make my decision. They are an Xbox One partner, so delivery of my cloud movies is now available via the Xbox. Nice!

Monday, August 13, 2012

Motorola S9-HD Headphone Continual Beeping - FIX

Recently my Motorola S9-HD Bluetooth headphones started doing something annoying. It started on a bike ride where I really wanted some music. Periodically they began a long continual series of beeps. If I pressed the power button the beeps would stop, but not for long. Un-pairing and re-pairing them didn't change anything.

What I found that did work is to completely drain the battery. Completely...meaning leave them on until they power off, then turn them back on until they turn off again. I then did a full charge on the battery. I found that I had to repair them again to my phone - not sure if that's normal or not. Once I did that, they started working again properly.

So far so good and the problem has not returned.

** EDIT **

Not long after I posted this, the problem returned. The best I can determine, the headphone batteries weren’t holding a good charge. I ended up putting them in my pile of recycle. Now I’m on a quest to find a suitable replacement. I’ve looked at the next model up from Motorola the S10’s – I might go with them.