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Pizza Hut Tempts Gamers With a $10,000 Gaming Setup

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lead-me-not-into-temptation dept.

Now when you are trying to decide which late-night temple of crusty dough and burnt cheese gets your dinner vote, there may be an extra moment's pause for Pizza Hut. Along with a free 30-day GameFly membership, you also have the chance to win the gaming setup of a decade. Including a Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, and a 60-inch plasma TV, this package would be sure to make any gamer's heart skip a beat. Unfortunately, it also means you have to break that typical gamer diet of soy and bean curd, good luck.

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  1. Enter without a pizza by ExploHD · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://pizzahut.eprize.net/gamefly/index.tbapp

  2. I usually don't complain... by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Informative

    But this is an ad. Lets just call it an ad, or a "sponsored story" and move on. If you guys didn't get paid for this thing then that's even sadder. I don't mind the ads on /., it keeps things going, but please don't try to pass them off as content. There's nothing in this story that at all meets the (admittedly low) editorial bar for submissions here. Its product placement, pure and simple.

  3. Where the $10,000 goes. by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's where the $10,000 goes:

    The big-ticket item is the furniture.

    Did they throw in any games?

  4. Re:Thanks by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dr. Pepper's new Indiana Jones contest lets you know if you've won something on the cap, but not what you've won until you've registered on their site. Most of the prizes are pathetic too, they advertise a '1 in 6 chance of winning!' which is easy when half your prizes are Wallpapers and Screensavers, of the type that most people give away.

    --
    There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
  5. Re:Don't plasma displays still suffer from burn-in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This has changed, and not recently. There is image retention, which means that if you leave your display on the same, high contrast image for a while, you'll see the bright bits on very dark screens for a couple of minutes. It's nothing even remotely permanent, and it never happens in motion video.

    Unless you're showing airport departure times 24/7 (where I admit burn-in is likely), plasma screens are awesome. For gaming in particular, the total response times on plasma are typically better (try the calibration tool in Guitar Hero), and Panasonic (the only remaining plasma manufacturer) has great scalers in their sets so you don't get the fuzzy image that so many LCDs have when not showing their native resolution.