9 posts tagged “tv”

If you were still in suspense, I did get the TV I bought:

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I guess that's that:

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It wasn't discounted extra for the new DLP models, but I decided it was time to give up and buy it on Amazon, and when I looked on the site today, Amazon showed me a separate offer for a free up-converting DVD player. I was a little worried about getting a tv shipped, but after Amazon had trouble with broken items through UPS, they switched to Eagle, who everyone complains is slow... but slow versus broken isn't much of a choice, is it?

I had looked at the glossy LNT4665F, but its sibling, the matte LNT4661F, is a few hundred dollars cheaper. The 4661 a Consumer Reports "Quick Pick" from the March issue Henry mentioned. Amazon forumgoers seem to prefer the 4665, but these folks think the glare is a bigger issue. The Amazon thread also says the speakers are on the bottom on the 4661 instead of the sides as on the 4665, but CR still gave the 4661 an “excellent” in sound quality.

I guess we'll see in a week or two!

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

As someone who has shown an interest in televisions and video, you might like to know that as Samsung prepares to release new models, Amazon.com has lowered prices on all of our current models while supplies last.

“Plasma” TV

Speaking of things to watch with eyes, I got a 360 and Rock Band this past weekend. So now I should probably get a TV.

Nick and Byrne suggested:

• Deciding a price range.
• Finding the most expensive TV with good sound in that price range.
• Watching slickdeals or one's local equivalent for discounts on that model.

That seems like it'll take a while though. Given I strongly considered buying a TV from Best Buy when I got the other parts, does anyone have recommendations that might get me one sooner?

In honor of the new news:

Which TV show was cancelled way too soon?

Farscape - The Peacekeeper Wars

While I liked Invader Zim too , the one I was watching at the time was Farscape . I don't know about way too soon, though, as it was getting completely inaccessible to new viewers.

Cancelled way too soon was Firefly , but I only saw it on DVD after anyway. So I would be happy if Farscape got a DVD treatment as nice as Firefly 's, rather than the ultra-quantized ADV packaging.

Harsh Realm - The Complete Series

It's about a virtual reality combat sim the government built, using "the 1990 census and satellite photography" to completely simulate the entire United States in order to run terrorist crisis simulations. But things have changed: some officer who was the "high scorer" is now General Santiago, having performed a military coup and slowly accreting the northeast in his fenced-in utopian dictatorship. (On the first disc he gets the rest of New Jersey he hadn't already taken.) The protagonist is some random army guy who gets put in the game to, like everyone else who gets put in the game, kill Santiago. As it transpires in the first four episodes, according to various other characters, Santiago is the only person with means to leave the game of his own free will, and intends to destroy the real world once he gets his virtual utopia sufficiently locked in.

So of course this morning all I can think is it should be a MMORPG.

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OMG I totally just finished watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and it was SO NEAT it was like full of awesomes. ♥♥♥♥

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, V4 Special Edition [2 Discs]

I got it from Netflix though so I didn't have to pay the obscene prices of anime DVDs.