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Welcome to the 21st Century

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cincibuck

cincibuck

You kids stay off my lawn!
I'm singing that old standard, How Long Has This Been going On?

The old TV was a 19 inch NEC that refused to die. The speakers buzzed and rattled and you could barely understand the dialogue on a good show like West Wing or Northern Exposure.

Yesterday we brought home a Pioneer 43 inch plasma and plugged it into Time Warners HDTV service. Watched PBS HD on Idaho, flipped to Discovery nature HD. Couldn't believe it was TV. Today I slipped in the DVD of the KState Fiesta Bowl game. The colors, even at DVD level, were so intense. The band in the background and all the noise from the field... I'd been missing so much. Slipped in the VHS tape of the Michigan Game and couldn't believe how much more you could see because of the screen size.

Still to go is the addition of a DVD recorder and burner, a $150 gizmo that is supposed to kick DVDs up to HD prixel level (!), a Yamaha receiver/amp that will anchor the surround sound. All will be in place by September 3rd. I'm going to have all of the season on record, including my popping open a bottle of Mumms when the Bucks win the Rose Bowl.

In the meantime, I'm still singing, How Long Has This Been Going On?

A special thanks to the techies on the BP net who helped me out with their advice on AV equipment.
 
HDTV has achieved true "technology" status in my book. Technology is not true technology unless it becomes something you take for granted, not something that makes you more confused or frustrated. I came back for winter break last year and in my parent's living room stood a 50" HDTV - I almost crapped my pants. I knew HDTV was the real deal when my friends 82 year old grandmother was blown away by the clarity and brightness of HD channels.

Everything is exciting in HD. Since you're on Time Warner, and I take it your in Cincinnati, check out the random stuff they show on INHD and INHD2 (I like to call it HD pimping). On INHD they had a show called "Great Canadian Rivers." I shit you not, it was 2 hours of just flying over rivers in Canada...almost no narration or anything. But lemme tell you, I was watching that shit for damn near an hour and a half....cause it was in high definition. My friends dad saw the HDTV in our living room and plunked down $4,000 on a 62" LCD rear-projection the next week. The thing takes up an entire wall. You flip it on to an HD channel and it's like a window into another world.

EDIT: Now that you have an HDTV, check out media center PC's, yet another thing that totally changes the way you watch television. PM me if you got any questions about it...I just put together one and it is quite possibly the greatest thing ever made in the history of man.
 
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