Oh, you'll also want to get either a Blu-Ray or upconverting DVD player when you buy the TV. Otherwise your DVDs will look like crap on the new display.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
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Jessica - Feb 22, 2010 12:34:37 pm PST #12988 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
NoiseDesign - Feb 22, 2010 12:43:07 pm PST #12989 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
With current prices I'd definitely just go with a decent Blu-Ray player.
Zenkitty - Feb 22, 2010 1:07:52 pm PST #12990 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm planning to try a different input for this tv, but I suspect it's just not a very good tv. (It was cheap. You get what you pay for.) I expect I'll be buying a Samsung and a Blu-ray, sometime this summer when I have a little more spare change.
meara - Feb 22, 2010 2:21:03 pm PST #12991 of 25501
My new tv was cheap (on sale at target!) but I can definitely tell even the regular channels look nicer viewed through my cable box and the hdmi connection as opposed to going through the connectors on my TiVo. Sigh. But it all looks big and pretty. Steph, warning--being in a big store makes TVs look smaller, so you think you need more. Then it looks bigger once you get it home. Compare sizes to friends with similar size apartments or distances to tv viewing.
Tom Scola - Feb 22, 2010 2:40:48 pm PST #12992 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Oh. So the system (eta: iTunes) just hides it then?
If you look in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/TV Shows/ you'll see both copies of the TV show you downloaded.
NoiseDesign - Feb 22, 2010 2:43:51 pm PST #12993 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Don't listen to meara, she is silly. Go buy the biggest one in the store.
We have a 47" in the living room, Kristin disagrees that a 60" would be even better.
meara - Feb 22, 2010 2:51:00 pm PST #12994 of 25501
I got a 42" tv! It's plenty big! It's just in the store, it seemed kinda small.
Jessica - Feb 22, 2010 3:04:37 pm PST #12995 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Kristin disagrees that a 60" would be even better.
I'm guessing she doesn't want to have to stand on the porch in order to see the entire image.
tommyrot - Feb 22, 2010 3:06:03 pm PST #12996 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I bought my 30-something inch highdef TV from Radio Shack. It was the biggest TV they had that I could carry on the train.
tommyrot - Feb 22, 2010 3:08:57 pm PST #12997 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, I'm at the laundromat, using my 3G modem. How do I turn off the offline features of Google Reader? So far, the only reference to "offline" has been about Google Gears.