but i'm still not in a rush to get blu-ray

[ironymaiden]

this week, i bought my first television. no, really. up to this point, every tv in my life was a gift or a hand-me-down from someone else's upgrade. we brought it home and i did a quick and dirty xbox setup for C's online game night before running off to tame e_bourne's electronics. i've always thought of her tv as being monumentally huge. it turns out our new one is only an inch smaller. whoa.

this marks the retirement of the VCR. its life in the last few years was about taking in the cable and splitting off the audio signal, which is no longer necessary.

last night i got most of the wiring done. i need some longer audio cables, which may become an excuse to go to optical or coax for some of the components. and i'm still troubleshooting the region-free DVD player. (per the manual, if i can't get it to talk to the tv, i should change the settings. which, yunno, can only be accessed through display on the tv...) anyway, games work, tv works, Region 1 DVDs work. that will do for a little while.

Comments

[buhrger]

you're one up on me. i've not yet ever purchased a tv. admittedly, the line between tv and flat-panel monitor is shrinking rapidly....

[ironymaiden]

so true. that was the other mindblowing thing for me - the new tv is a plasma, and it might be two inches thick, nearly indistinguishable from an LCD. e_bourne's plasma is a substantial piece of furniture that is probably a foot thick at the bottom.

[e-bourne.livejournal.com]

You are my hero.