Zit Seng's Superwall

If SingTel plays their cards right, I think they’re going to win lots of customers. Their win of the English Premier League broadcast rights in Singapore last week surprised many people. The immediate reaction of most people was one of worry of how much it would cost them to watch soccer in the coming years. It costs quite a lot to watch soccer with StarHub. Will they have to pay just as much with SingTel? Or perhaps more, considering that SingTel must have put in a very high bid to win the rights, and would thus naturally have to recoup their investments? Many people were concerned that the telco competition could spell trouble for consumers.

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My new Samsung 40″ LCD TV has arrived. It’s the new “B” generation of their Series 5 LCD TV. The TV looks really cool, and the pictures it produces are superb. The colours are bright and vivid, the contrast is excellent, and the image is crisp. It’s quite impressive. Perhaps I’ve been watching my old projection TV for too long that I’m now mesmerized by the quality of the pictures produced by this new TV.

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Fancy a TV that costs over $100K? Yeah, that’s the super big Panasonic Plasma TV, which measures 103″ diagonally. That’s humongous. The price is also unreal. That’s the TV “featured” at Best Denki at Takashimaya. I was there a few nights ago to check out the TVs on offer, because I’m now on the look out for something to replace my dead 42″ Panasonic projection TV. Of course, the 103″ TV is out of my league. I’m looking for something like 1/100th of its price.

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After some months of procrastination, we’ve finally gotten around to getting ourselves a HubStation. StarHub markets the HubStation as a 3-in-1 device that lets you watch TV, surf the Internet and make phone calls. Actually, it’s main feature is really about TV, in particular its DVR and interactive TV functions. At the risk of sounding so ’suaku’, the DVR and interactive TV are really cool. (Yah, no DVR at home until now… other than the one plugged in my PC.)

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