If you haven’t been to a videogame store or Wal-Mart lately, you’ve missed the public roll-out of the X-Box 360 demo units.

I just saw one the other day while I was hunting for a PS2 game on sale 50% off.

Graphically, it looks pretty good for high-def, but I’m still waiting to see what Sony offers for the PS3 next year.

It’s just too early I think for a new system this year.

At any rate, I doubt Microsoft is going to take away the videogame business from Sony… X-Box more or less failed worldwide with the exception of the US and only recently managed to turn a profit after losing several billion dollars for most of its first 4 years.

Instead of all the CSI and Law & Order variations, what I wouldn’t do to see Arrested Development, Veronica Mars and The Amazing Race on this list.

And I’m seriously considering dropping all CSIs. I watched a couple over the weekend for the first time in a couple of weeks and realized something: I didn’t miss them, and they’re all the same boring stories of strange sex followed by death and dismemberment, and a shocking twist ending. The funny thing is, I find MIAMI to be the most entertaining of the three right now.

Not as satisfying as catching the shows first run, of course, but it’s still a possibility.

And the networks have conveniently been using Saturday as a day to rerun shows from the week, so you might be surprised at how many competitive shows have a second chance for TiVo to catch them.

I would have House on a season pass, but it’s in a competitive timeslot, and I have to decide week by week whether I can watch it or not. Sad. But I think one of the shows it’s up against is Commander in Chief (which IS on season pass), and that show is becoming borderline with me. I’ll stick with it to see if Bochco can improve the writing. Meanwhile, I know House will be on DVD eventually.