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

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.

Enter without a pizza

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

I usually don't complain...

[badboy_tw2002]

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.

Where the $10,000 goes.

[Animats]

Here's where the $10,000 goes:

• LG 60' Plasma TV $2,417.99 [google.com]
• Nintendo Wii $325.00 [google.com]
• XBox 360 $449.00 [google.com]
• Sony PS3 $399.00 [google.com]
• Bose Lifestyle 28 Series III Home Theater System $1300.00 [google.com]
• Berkline 3-seat home theater seating, curved. $2697.00 [bostontables.com]
• Commercial popcorn popper (5' tall) $569.00 [google.com]

The big-ticket item is the furniture.

Did they throw in any games?

Re:Thanks

[Jarjarthejedi]

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.

Re:Don't plasma displays still suffer from burn-in

[Anonymous Coward]

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.