What would you do if you’re Arabian-Prince wealthy and have oodles and oodles of money at your disposal? For starters, you could treat yourself to exotic sports cars, supercharged yachts, homes in Lake Como, St. Barts, Paris, London, Monaco, and Tokyo, your own Boeing A380, and buy the company you’re working for now. Or you could buy some of these gadgets - just because you can.

If your home movies are made in like, Steven Spielberg/ Peter Jackson fashion, then using a regular video camera just isn’t going to cut it. According to the digital grapevine, if you want to channel your inner film director, the camera that all the cool moviemaking kids are using is the Red One. Almost a foot long and weighs 9 pounds minus the lens and battery, you can hold it in one hand and start shooting 12-megapixel video at 60 frames per second or 720p video at 120 fps. It’s designed to produce images with the same sharpness and depth of field as 35mm film. A steal at ,500 or roughly Php 717,500.

Every couch potato’s dream is to have a kick @ss TV. One such eye candy is Barco’s 56-inch LC-5621 LCD. Priced at ,000 (that’s Php Php 2.9M), the LC-5621’s quad-HD (3840 by 2160) resolution means you can watch really high-definition movies (if you can find any), or up to four 1080p video feeds simultaneously, thanks to its two dual-link DVI ports. A 176-degree viewing angle means there’s plenty of room to sprawl in front of the screen, and a 6.5ms gray-to-gray response time means images will look good even if you’re watching the Spider-Man movie while someone else is playing the video game.

Then there’s also Samsung’s Series 7 Full HD LCD TV. Building on the superior technologies and Crystal Design features, the Samsung Series 7 Full HD LCD TV (A750) brings networking and multimedia management to another level.

Unique to the Series 7, users can utilise internal flash memory packed with premium content. Users can enjoy MPEG and JPEG files stored on external devices through side-mounted USB 2.0, turning their LCD into a full-scale home viewing gallery, or for a dynamic audio experience.

The Series 7 is ideal for gamers, movie lovers and sports buffs. Now that’s entertainment!

Now if you’re a couch potato with really expensive taste you can also hook up you kick @ss TV with a pair of 0,000 (Php 6.1M) La Sphere Coaxial speakers. Made by French company Cabasse, the eye-ball shaped speakers sure has an eye popping price but it gives off superb audio that your sensitive ears will be able to catch every last aural nuance, thus will make you even forget you forked out so much cash that you could have bought yourself a Mercedes Benz ML 350. True, it does look out of this world but Cabasse claims that the spherical design allows the woofer to provide the best linear response at a fraction of the volume required for traditionally shaped cabinets. The stand, which looks like it came out of a science-fiction movie, is an integral part of the design, working with the speakers themselves to maintain "stability and spatial coherence." So you can close your eyes and get lost in the music--if you can shake the feeling you’re being stared at.

What’s better? CD or Vinyl? Audio enthusiasts still argue over whether the durability and clarity of CD are superior to the sweet but sometimes scratchy sound of vinyl. Seeing that the one must make love not war, the powers that be have introduced the ELP Laser Turntable series, which takes the best of both CD and Vinyl worlds and comes up with a third way. Instead of a needle dropping down on your stacks of wax, four lasers read the reflections of your records’ grooves, while a fifth tracks each record’s warp to keep the reading beams’ height constant. The result is more accurate sound reproduction than a traditional stylus produces, with all the warmth that purists crave, minus the wear and tear on the record. Forking out ,999 (around Php 500,000) gets you the LT-2XRC model, which plays 45-rpm, 78-rpm, and any-size 33-rpm records.

Hardcore entertainment junkies don’t just like to have a lot of movies and music, they like to have them at their fingertips at a moment’s notice. Kaleidescape’s rack-mounted 3U Server can store ripped DVDs and CDs on a RAID hard-disk array, with the most basic ,000 (Php 820,000), 750GB configuration capable of holding 112 DVDs or 1250 CDs. Max one server out to 9 terabytes, and you’re talking enough space for 1340 DVDs or 15,000 CDs. Whoa. Meanwhile, the 3U Server can integrate into a networked home media system, distributing music and video of up to 45 audio or video zones all at the same time. Not enough entertainment options? You can always add another server to the system so you could add more, more, and more! Of course, you might also consider going outside every once in a while. You know, maybe get a little sunlight and interact with real people and not those in movies.

To be continued…