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Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

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Jessica - Jan 05, 2009 4:07:12 am PST #8551 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My current one does great for my setup now, and the only difficulty in switching to an HDTV that I can see is it only has one optical audio input, so I'd have to choose between the TV and the DVD player. (I'll also need a new DVD player b/c my current one doesn't upscale, but that's an easy switch.)

Ideally, I'll keep the speakers I have now and just patch them into a new receiver if I do decide to go that route. Otherwise rewiring everything will be kind of a nightmare.

Jessica - Jan 05, 2009 4:12:04 am PST #8552 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

This looks pretty perfect, and the price is right.

Tom Scola - Jan 05, 2009 4:13:09 am PST #8553 of 25501

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Does it have a coax digital audio input? Mine has one of each, so the optical audio comes from the DVD player, and the coax audio comes from the DVR.

Jessica - Jan 05, 2009 4:17:04 am PST #8554 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Yup - 2 digital optical and 1 digital coax.

There are also a few others at that price point with HDMI passthrough, which might be easier to connect. I'll have to think about it.

omnis_audis - Jan 05, 2009 8:10:04 am PST #8555 of 25501

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

If you want to wait to buy the HDTV, and have NetFlix, this could be an interesting choice. No list of price.

Netflix bypasses US mail, set-top box with new HDTVs from LGk

Jessica - Jan 05, 2009 8:16:23 am PST #8556 of 25501

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I've seen that announcement a few places - those sets will probably be more $$ than we want to spend. (And since Netflix is also promising Mac-compatible streaming, I can just run a cable from the computer to the TV and achieve the same effect.)

Sophia Brooks - Jan 05, 2009 8:17:51 am PST #8557 of 25501

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Speaking of which, if I wanted to connect my little aspire one to the tv, can I do it, and how? Would I do the video out that would go to a projector and then a separate thing for sound?

Tom Scola - Jan 05, 2009 8:22:16 am PST #8558 of 25501

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

If your TV has a VGA input, then it's easy. If not, then you need something like this, or this.

Sophia Brooks - Jan 05, 2009 8:25:51 am PST #8559 of 25501

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

If your TV has a VGA input, then it's easy. If not, then you need something like this, or this.

My TV has RCA/S-video. Would one of those cables take care of sound as well?

Tom Scola - Jan 05, 2009 8:27:17 am PST #8560 of 25501

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

For audio, you'll need this.

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