When does it end?

It has always been my contention that home theatre is the most unnecessary of all luxuries. If movies are entertainment and are designed to distract us from our regular lives, why is it that only the richest (and thus those that need the break the least) can afford it? It is that unfortunate, ironic paradigm that I have dedicated my life and most of my disposable income to defeat. My latest attempts to bolster my home theatre arsenal take the form of a quick strike and a pre-emptive calculation.

That big black box is the Monster Power HTS 3500 MKII. It cleans the dirty power that wrecks the quality of my sound and video on such an enormous level that I might actually notice, but only now that they've told me so. The Monster Power 3500 MKII is a big, fat, overpriced, underperforming powerbar. Naturally, I have to have one.

If you must ask what that big Blu thing is you are terribly uninformed. You're probably one of those people who thinks that 100 watts per channel is actually 100 watts per channel! Ha ha! Go read up on your peak and RMS, you n00b! THAT, my friend, is the Sony BDP-S1. It's exactly the same as your $30 Thompson interlaced DVD player you bought at Canadian Tire, except that if you put them in the same room together, the Sony BDP-S1 would disintegrate your Thompson by simply opening its tray. That's because this is Sony's first Blu-ray player, and Blu-ray will take over for DVD and stomp all over HD DVD. Blu-ray disks have massive storage capacity, a sweet anti-scratch coating, and will be obscenely expensive for what will amount to a small improvement. Naturally, I have to have one.