Project Gotham Racing 3 received a new update over Xbox Live recently and one new feature added that I really like is the ability to turn off the hud completely. If your driving from the cockpit that means all you will see is the dashboard and road ahead of you. The trouble is, you can’t toggle it in game. The option to shut it off is in the game prefs. So if you need to know what lap it is, or what place your in, your screwed.

Good game to the developers for adding a feature a lot of us wished for though, they didn’t have to.

Monica and I purchased a new TV three weeks ago, the 32″ Sharp Aquos LCD. We found it at Best Buy as an open box deal and $200 of the list price, which already came way down since x-mas time. We were trying to hold out for a 37″ or above, but the price jump from 32 to 37 was too much to justify.

We arrived at LCD after months and months of research and viewing. We looked at CRT, DLP, Plasma, Rear Projection and ended up with an LCD because of their nice cost to size ratio. CRT is too big, DLP is nice but needs to be viewed at a perfect angle or else you loose picture quality, the same thing with rear projection. Plasma is nice, but only come in larger sizes and are more expensive than what we wanted to spend.

HD cable looks great and I have the cable box running out via optical to the receiver so Lost, 24 etc are in 5.1 and sound great. I have the Xbox360 hooked up and that looks incredible too.

The only knock I have against it is when there is a dark scene playing, you loose a lot of the detail that you would normally see with a CRT or Rear Projection. Other than that now that I have it, I want it to be bigger. Like 100″ big.