So many shows, so little time...
And as if we didn't already watch too much TV, now we have TWO DVR's - one in the living room, and one in the bedroom.
The good news is that now we can retire to the bedroom when we start getting tired and watch TV from the comfort of the bed. Also, we can now record four shows at the same time - so we won't miss recording anything we wish to watch. Of course, that's the bad news too.
In our efforts to figure out what we wanted to record where, we discovered a few good Internet resources.
Good program grids are available at Laurel's TV Picks and EPGuides.
Two good general resources are EPGuides and my ever favorite Wikipedia. The amount of topics covered, and the detail of the coverage of the topics at Wikipedia continues to amaze me.
Our efforts at getting the two broken TVs in our house repaired were fruitless. The local TV repair guy wasn't even interested in trying to repair the old bedroom TV. The other TV was a newer off-brand set that would have cost more to repair than we had initially paid for it. So, much to our dismay - financial and ecological - we took both of the sets to the dump. What a waste!
Jeanie and I checked out a number of stores looking for a new set for the bedroom, but so far, we have been unsuccessful at finding a replacement. The problem is that the opening in which the TV sits is 28 1/2 inches wide which would accommodate a 27" flat screen TV - IF the speakers were underneath the picture tube. Unfortunately, every 27" flat screen set we have looked at has the speakers on the sides, making the unit too wide. So, it appears our choices are: a 27" standard (curved) screen set (some of these have the speakers underneath), or a 24" flat screen set, or a 26" flat panel set. I don't want to spend new money on old (curved screen) technology nor do I want to spend money on a smaller screen, but I also don't want to spend 2-3 times the price of a tube set on a flat panel - although not getting a rupture lifting a flat panel vs. a 27" tube set is appealing. On the other hand, I don't want to have to continue to squint at the 19" set we are currently using as a temporary solution.
Oh, the drama...
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Posted by David at September 21, 2006 12:17 AM