Entering the modern TV age
Feb. 19th, 2007 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomGone with the 19” Toshiba whose label reads “manufactured october 1987”!
In with the 37” Norcent HD-Ready television!
It has a built-in tuner (especially important since we have a non-HDTV tuner and are going to resist upgrading for a while; and resist the $5/month HD charge from Comcast).
We also bought a DVD Recorder.
We went to a 6th Ave Electronics sale that started at 8am. We got there just in time. Of course, the model that was super-duper cheap wasn’t available (isn’t their a law against that? Oh yes, but so-called “pro-business” politicians have de-funded any enforcement). However, the model we wanted didn’t have a tuner. So we found a model we liked better anyway with a slightly smaller screen but a built-in tuner.
Open issues:
In with the 37” Norcent HD-Ready television!
It has a built-in tuner (especially important since we have a non-HDTV tuner and are going to resist upgrading for a while; and resist the $5/month HD charge from Comcast).
We also bought a DVD Recorder.
We went to a 6th Ave Electronics sale that started at 8am. We got there just in time. Of course, the model that was super-duper cheap wasn’t available (isn’t their a law against that? Oh yes, but so-called “pro-business” politicians have de-funded any enforcement). However, the model we wanted didn’t have a tuner. So we found a model we liked better anyway with a slightly smaller screen but a built-in tuner.
Open issues:
- Call Comcast and get HD service (might wait a year on that)
- Call Tivo and find out how to get the remote to work with the Norcent (it isn’t in the menu)
