My fiance were looking for a new television and I went and did it. We purchased a rather large high definition set.
There we were, looking at the HDTV side by side with a regular set and we were just knocked off our feet by the clarity of the picture. Oh, this thing is cool.
And they deliver my new baby tomorrow!
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Cool. What brand? I think it was Sony who came up with this new feature, called "natural motion", I think, that made the frames flow much smoother, it felt much more than 24/sec.
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Yes, he's taken, Tora.
I believe he announced his engagement several months ago?
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Well, welcome back Ms. Ziyal. Good to see your shining presence on the borads again.
Yes, I am engaged to be married this October. She's rather a wonderful person.
My new child is a 36 inch Hitachi hdtv picture in picture set that is HUGE!
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Plasma or Projection (or some huge honking conventional tube)? If you just ran out and bought the former, I imagine the honeymoon might well have to be cut back to a night at the Motel 6 down the street...
(All HDTV sets are widescreen, right?)
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I believe Tom that it is some sort of huge honking conventional tube. We looked at ones that were projection and they were much more expensive and we felt that unless you were several feet away from them, and directly in front of them the picture seemed rather distorted.
I'll have to read the book tomorrow and find out more about child care.
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Of course, if you didn't have that worst TV system in the world anyway, then all this HDTV nonsense wouldn't be necessary. NTSC my arse.
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What is it you PALites call it? Never Twice the Same Color?
Seriously, though HDTV is pretty schweeet. My folks recently got a 65" Mitsubishi (projection) HDTV ready bigscreen. We still haven't quite figured out how we want to get some HDTV signals to display (We live in a valley and our RF reception = crizappy). In the mean time, it's all about the progressive scan anamorphic DVD transfers with the 5.1 surround. STII really is so very beautiful.
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