The Ten Biggest Dallas-Related MTV Moments

As you've no doubt figured out by now, MTV turned 30 years old today. Indeed, that's a formidable amount of time -- enough, for sure, for almost entity to leave a mark.

And, for sure,Spring merchantaccount in Houston at The Woodlands Town Center. MTV has made plenty of marks. But beyond its ground-breaking debut as a music-centric cable station and past, even, its establishment as a standard-bearer in the world of reality television, the station's also had a strong effect on Dallas. A number of local artists got their big national break when MTV decided to play their music videos. On the other hand, MTV also helped run a few Dallas-bred acts into the ground. Either way: There's no denying the fact that MTV's 30-year run hasn't gone unnoticed here in North Texas.

So, on that note, we decided to slog through the station's entire 30-year history to look back in the biggest Dallas-related happenings in MTV history. Check out our picks for the best after the jump.

10. Play-n-Skillz on MTV's Made. As producers, brothers and two of the many thorns in Lil Wayne's side,It's just newjordans of melted plastic right now. Play-n-Skillz have helped put Dallas on the hip-hop map. And this year, they were featured on an episode of Made, a makeover show that turns ambitious teens into what they want to be "made" into -- i.e. singers, athletes, etc. For their episode as coaches, Play-n-Skillz were given the task of turning two teen girls into marketable pop singers, which,A light bulb went off and with the support of billabongboardshorts a new venture was born. understandably, kind of drove them up the wall. The episode aired last month, which shows that,shortly after they will get more injectionmoldes of debris. no matter how relevant MTV is in the world of music, they're still paying attention to us here in Big D.you may be climbing over replicawatchesnewyork or through very narrow pathways,

9. Meat Loaf, "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)." Meat Loaf was born in Houston, but he grew up in Dallas and attended UNT. The above head-scratcher of a video for his song "I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" helped launch Meat's 1992 comeback. It featured Meat as a Phantom of the Opera-type character. Not since Bonnie Tyler and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" has a music video been so epically, cheesily theatrical.

Hands On: Asus EeePad Transformer review

Asus today launched its innovative Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet, the EeePad Transformer. Which is vying to be the first such tablet on sale in the UK. It's a 10.1in tablet that can be bought with a unique docking station that adds a full QWERTY keyboard and extra ports. Android 3.0 Honeycomb is the tablet version of the popular smartphone software, with support for larger screen sizes. For more details, read our full review of Honeycomb now.


We had a chance to play with the Transformer and its dock, as well as some of the software Asus has pre-installed. The Transformer is powered by Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform, a combination of a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a GeForce GPU for hardware graphics acceleration. It felt really quick and responded well to touch input - we watched YouTube and HD videos playing in full screen without any hiccups.

Asus EeePad Transformer docked

Asus has used an IPS panel, normally found on expensive professional monitors, and covered it with tough Gorilla Glass, and it's one of the best displays we've seen on any device. Viewing angles are wide and there's an oleophobic (oil resistant) coating that makes touch input smoother as well as reducing the smears of oily fingerprints that plague most smartphones and tablets. Colours are vibrant, contrast is excellent and the brightness level is adequate for outdoor viewing.

Build quality on both the tablet and the docking station is superb. Each has a solid metal frame, with a textured plastic back panel that makes it easier to grip. There was absolutely no flex in either the tablet or the dock, and the keyboard panel had no flex in it. This was a pre-production sample, so some of the keys were in the wrong place or weren't functional, but we found it easy to type on, with a light, crisp action that will please touch-typists.

There's a 5-megapixel camera mounted on the back as well as a front-facing 1.2-megapixel camera for video calling, although no video calling software was evident. The Transformer will initially be available in 16GB and 32GB versions, although you won't be able to buy the dock separately for a while, and it's only available as a bundle with the 16GB version at present. On its own, the Transformer apparently weighs 680g, and with the dock it's 1.3kg, although it felt heftier to us.