And you can only get the networks using a tuner for free depending on where you live, again. Not everybody will have that capability.
It's really not a big deal, being as it looks the s ame as a regular tv if you don't have the proper receiver but it's not exactly the walk in the park for all of us that you're claiming. It is actually a really trinormous bitch in a lot of locales to get HDTV.
― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (trm), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (trm), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
http://images.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/normal/642/Medion_MD3723_Disney_Princess_TV__6490642.jpg
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
and yeah, plasma has definitely gotten cheaper. those 42" panasonic plasmas -- which everyone raves about -- can now be had for $1200. i could have gotten a larger tv easily for my money, but: i didn't want anything bigger than 32" (altho now i kinda wish i had gotten the 40" samsung 1080p which is v pretty), and there are huge variants of quality in between brands and models. definitely research the shit out of it before you buy.
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
http://audiovisual.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/pr_1/14206304/100311823.html
If so, it's $400 more expensive in the UK.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
In the UK don't they drive around in trucks trying to detect people illegally watching TV?
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (trm), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
but you are!
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― clevo lk (clevo lk), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
by this do you mean, the cable company hasn't come out and run whatever kind of new cable it might need to run? I think that comcast here (in california) will just come and do this if they get an order, and they ren't going to charge you for it either, because they want everyone to switch over eventually anyway.
― akm (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (trm), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I just bought the Panasonic 42" plasma Jams refers to, and it was about the same price (maybe a little cheaper) than comparable LCDs. I did crazy amounts of research beforehand, and the interesting comparison point was trying to find TVs which could reproduce (as close as possible) something called "D6500K" - supposedly the optimum prescribed color temperature used by the film and broadcast industry. The Pioneer plasmas rate best across the board, but they are also far more expensive. The Panasonics peformed best in the lower price range. LCDs do OK, but the problems with black levels limit them (although this is improving). I think games, etc will look better on a LCD (or any TV in a bright room), but if you primarily want to watch movies, Plasma is the way to go.
HD definitely looks much better than the CRTs I'm used to. And I got the 'upconverting' DVD player, which does seem to be better than running a traditional DVD player to it. Upconverting players are dropping under a hundred bucks anyway. Mind you, cables (especially the ideal HDMI or Component ones) are ridiculously overpriced.
I am going to wallmount it and hide the wires. It's far more practical for me to mount it, since then I don't need a TV stand taking up room underneath the screen, hence more room for my coffee table and space in the living room itself. All the DVD/Cable boxes and thingys will site in a recessed cabinet off to the side.
So... yeah, I'm a dickweed.
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Halle Berry on an LCD tv:
http://www.celebopedia.com/berry/images/halle_berry.jpg
Halle Berry on a plasma TV:
http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~ra831/group8/images/Whoopi.jpg
― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I cannot believe people buy monster cables, for anything.
― TOMB07 (trm), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I picked up a 28 inch cheap crt for peanuts, only problem was getting it down my narrow basement stairs, but i shold have realised that before.
― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
fair point, i apologise. big tvs make me feel kind of irrationally annoyed
― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
especially big "HD" tellys and big "LCD" tellys and all that so on and on
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
and then there was csi miami where apparently ordinary cops fly to brazil on a whim carrying out personal vendettas to catch drug dealing terrorists.
i cant imagine what this stuff is actually like if you can see it properly.
one of them has now taken to going downstairs on a saturday afternoon, turning the tv on, and immediately going to sleep on the sofa. she even says, do you mind if i put the tv on to sleep
― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
He wasn't naturally sadistic. He honestly thought(thinks) that a room without some background noise is too weird.
― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I shudder to think what the verb usage might involve.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link
-- TOMB07 (tombo...) (webmail), January 3rd, 2007 5:29 PM. (trm)
lolol YES
― aidsy (aidsy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link