Our family room television set has seen better days. From time to time, when we turn it on, the color set only shows back and white images. Or green images. We've already replaced some parts a few years back when it exploded. Recently, the power button somehow got pushed into the set. We can still turn it on, but we had to push our finger about 1/2 an inch into the hole until the loose button would engage the power. Probably not a safe thing for our kids to be doing. Joi and I decided to combine our Christmas money, Amazon gift certificates, and her birthday money so that we could purchase a flatscreen LCD HD ready television. I did lots of searching for the best set, for the best price, that would fit into our entertainment center. We eventually decided on a Sylvania LC321SSX 32-Inch HD Flat Panel LCD TV. We purchased it from Amazon.com for $329. We have Amazon Prime, so the shipping was free. It's on it's way. We hope to get it by Friday or Saturday, so that I can set it up this weekend. I can hardly wait to see the crisp picture. I'm excited that we are getting it before the final season of Lost begins. It's going to look awesome. Now, I'm thinking that I might ask for money for my birthday, so that I can get an HD LCD TV for upstairs, too. I'm afraid that once I see the picture on an HD TV, I'll be disappointed when I watch the set upstairs. I can hardly wait to get it all set up and running. Wii's going to be awesome on it.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Going High Definition
Our family room television set has seen better days. From time to time, when we turn it on, the color set only shows back and white images. Or green images. We've already replaced some parts a few years back when it exploded. Recently, the power button somehow got pushed into the set. We can still turn it on, but we had to push our finger about 1/2 an inch into the hole until the loose button would engage the power. Probably not a safe thing for our kids to be doing. Joi and I decided to combine our Christmas money, Amazon gift certificates, and her birthday money so that we could purchase a flatscreen LCD HD ready television. I did lots of searching for the best set, for the best price, that would fit into our entertainment center. We eventually decided on a Sylvania LC321SSX 32-Inch HD Flat Panel LCD TV. We purchased it from Amazon.com for $329. We have Amazon Prime, so the shipping was free. It's on it's way. We hope to get it by Friday or Saturday, so that I can set it up this weekend. I can hardly wait to see the crisp picture. I'm excited that we are getting it before the final season of Lost begins. It's going to look awesome. Now, I'm thinking that I might ask for money for my birthday, so that I can get an HD LCD TV for upstairs, too. I'm afraid that once I see the picture on an HD TV, I'll be disappointed when I watch the set upstairs. I can hardly wait to get it all set up and running. Wii's going to be awesome on it.
6 comments:
It takes a little getting use to. The picture is so clear, like watching a video camera with depth. The first week we had ours, Ray keep calling me into the living constantly; telling me to "look at the grass" during his football games.
opps, I forgot the word "room"...
Babe, you crack me up! I'm just glad that the color won't go out on us anymore! Yay!
I've been resisting HD due to the crispness of the images-- I've seen it in other people's houses and you can see every bump, lump, wart and poor make-up application on the newscasters and actors. Not sure this is a good thing. Let me know what you think after you get it.
HD really is amazing looking, especially sports. Just make sure you have an HD source going into the TV. I thought you have mentioned satellite TV before so just make sure you have an HD box to show the HD signal. Or you can use an regular antenna for local over-the-air stuff. Also don't be surprised if your non HD channels look like junk. Also, from my understanding, the Wii is not HD, but hopefully it will still look pretty good! If you have any questions about anything, let me know. I've done a fair share of research on HD stuff.
i know your Wii looks like junk on your new tv... well you can get these cables to help clear up the picture.
(you cant beat these guy's prices.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10830&cs_id=1083007&p_id=5689&seq=1&format=2
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