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masqthephlsphr) wrote2011-01-01 12:58 pm
masqthephlsphr) wrote2011-01-01 12:58 pm
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Impulse Shoptus Interruptus
My final evening of 2010 was a bit... chaotic. Or perhaps just blundery. I pulled a video down from a bookshelf to watch, and in the process, broke the toy ax ann1962 gifted me with. Then I rolled out my television so the Sculptor and I could watch said movie, which we didn't end up watching after all, because we yapped for so long. Later, when I went to put the TV back, one of the casters on the TV stand fell out. We managed to keep the TV from falling onto the floor (it's a big, heavy tube model), then I dumped the stand over to put the caster back, which scattered my Star Trek Voyager Season 3 discs across the floor (I was a smidge drunk). I managed to step on disc 7 and scrape it up big-time, making it unwatchable. And it was all for naught anyway, since the caster was broke.
Not wanting this to be an omen of the new year, this morning I bought a replacement for my DVDs on-line, then headed out to replace the caster. Later I'm going at my ax with superglue. But, feeling grumpy about my bumbliness, I decided I was going to go to the big New Year's sale at Fry's Electronics and get myself a nice flat panel television.
I talked to the salesguy for about twenty minutes, telling him what I was looking for, and in the end, walked out empty handed, 'cause I didn't want to buy the wrong thing. The TV I am looking for:
(1) can't be a big screen. It's for a little, little room where I sit only six feet from eyeballs to television screen, and I'm far-sighted. The TV I have now, it turns out, has a 20" diagonal screen. I'm thinking 26", 32" max.
(2) can't be a plasma, with the glass screen that weighs ten tons. I need a TV I can lift by my lone wolf lonesome.
(3) I want it to have a DVD player in it (doesn't have to be blu ray, but if it is, it must be backwards compatible), just to cut down on all the wires going every damned place.
(4) So far, so good, but here's the tricky part. I'd like to be able to use it to watch Netflix downloads or other computer downloads, and I'm not sure what all my options are. The ones that come ready for wireless seem to be twice as expensive as the others, and I know folks on my flist do this without having ready-for-internet-hook up televisions.
(5) Number (4)? Can't be overly complicated. I have a fair bit of computer-fu, but I don't enjoy having to use those powers.
ann1962 gifted me with. Then I rolled out my television so the Sculptor and I could watch said movie, which we didn't end up watching after all, because we yapped for so long. Later, when I went to put the TV back, one of the casters on the TV stand fell out. We managed to keep the TV from falling onto the floor (it's a big, heavy tube model), then I dumped the stand over to put the caster back, which scattered my Star Trek Voyager Season 3 discs across the floor (I was a smidge drunk). I managed to step on disc 7 and scrape it up big-time, making it unwatchable. And it was all for naught anyway, since the caster was broke.Not wanting this to be an omen of the new year, this morning I bought a replacement for my DVDs on-line, then headed out to replace the caster. Later I'm going at my ax with superglue. But, feeling grumpy about my bumbliness, I decided I was going to go to the big New Year's sale at Fry's Electronics and get myself a nice flat panel television.
I talked to the salesguy for about twenty minutes, telling him what I was looking for, and in the end, walked out empty handed, 'cause I didn't want to buy the wrong thing. The TV I am looking for:
(1) can't be a big screen. It's for a little, little room where I sit only six feet from eyeballs to television screen, and I'm far-sighted. The TV I have now, it turns out, has a 20" diagonal screen. I'm thinking 26", 32" max.
(2) can't be a plasma, with the glass screen that weighs ten tons. I need a TV I can lift by my lone wolf lonesome.
(3) I want it to have a DVD player in it (doesn't have to be blu ray, but if it is, it must be backwards compatible), just to cut down on all the wires going every damned place.
(4) So far, so good, but here's the tricky part. I'd like to be able to use it to watch Netflix downloads or other computer downloads, and I'm not sure what all my options are. The ones that come ready for wireless seem to be twice as expensive as the others, and I know folks on my flist do this without having ready-for-internet-hook up televisions.
(5) Number (4)? Can't be overly complicated. I have a fair bit of computer-fu, but I don't enjoy having to use those powers.