Posts Tagged "HDTV"

First Snow

Posted by on Nov 21, 2007 in General | 4 comments

We are getting our first snow this morning. They said two inches but I bet we have 4 and it is still coming down. Here is a shot out the front door. The satellite guy called this morning before the snow started and postponed until this afternoon. He said he had three A.M. installations. That really pissed me off. Now the doesn’t look like it will happen today with all the snow. I am this close to canceling DirectTV before I even get it and keeping cable. I am glad I did not cancel the cable yet or it would have been no HDTV until next week probably other than local stations....

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DirectTV

Posted by on Nov 20, 2007 in Gadgets | 1 comment

I am making the switch from cable to DirectTV tomorrow. Cable just doesn’t have enough HD channels. I think I only get 17 or 19 channels on cable and satellite has over 50. Plus DirectTV seems to be on a better scheudle to add new channels by the end of the year. I really want Discovery HD, SciFi HD, History Channel HD, National Geo. HD, The Science Channel HD, and The Weather Channel HD. Okay, I was joking about wanting the Weather Channel HD. But all the other are not on Mediacom yet. And I am don’t like waiting. So between eight and noon tomorrow they are coming to do the...

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Pulled the Trigger

Posted by on Nov 11, 2007 in Gadgets | 2 comments

Finally made the move to HDTV. Terra bought me a birthday/Christmas present this weekend. She picked up a Vizio VW37L 37” LCD. I was torn between a Toshiba 32” that had a better contrast ratio but after looking at them side by side for about 45 minutes I picked the Vizio. So I was up to 4 AM on Thursday night ripping out the TV shelf I had originally built and sealing it up to mount the new TV to the wall. That entailed tearing down what I had before and drywalling over the opening, adding supports for the LCD mount, and then bricking the new area. I got a none swivel mount...

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