Archive for the 'Entertainment Center' Category

Decision Made

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

I broke down finally. I succumbed to the shame Strokker applied so harshly to me this past weekend. “We can’t watch movies?” he said. “You don’t have a DVD player?” he said.
Problem solved. Thats it though. Time to tighten up. No more big ticket items for many months.  I slipped when I sold some things [...]

Just In Time For Football

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

No more OTA antennae for me! DirecTV is adding HD locals for my city.
Take that in the butt Comcast.

Network & Streaming

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

My DirecTV HD-DVR will stream movies if hooked up to a network (wired.) Since my DVD player died in the move to the new crib, I’ve been looking to just network the DVR and stream my content instead of buying another DVD player. Also, the roommate has been begging for a way to network the [...]

HDTVs getting ready for a big price cut

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I know Clew is in the market for a big TV, I don’t know if anyone else is though. Prices are getting ready to drop $400 so wait just a little longer.
On that link, there is a list of model #s. You’ll see the Sharp Aquos 52″ 1080p HDTV model #LC-52D64U for $2700. The roommate [...]

More HD Goodness

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

DIRECTV just launched some new HD goodness with 21 new HD channels and many more (for my package) to come in the following months. I am still looking forward to Spike in HD for all the MMA fights in HD and SciFiHD for Battlestar Galactica. I do have VS in HD now so at least [...]

TVs for Dirt

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Requirements:

46-50″
2 HDMI inputs
1080P - this is the resolution your PS3 spits out, also called True HD. The best money can buy.

I figured you’re most likely to pick one from BestBuy or Circuit City. If you want to take the ordering big electronics off the internet plunge you can but I hear its a hassle if [...]

Local HD Channels

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

DirecTV doesn’t broadcast our local channels here in HD. In some big cities they do but not this one yet. I gotsta have my HD football games too. I can’t take only watching games on ESPNHD in HD and then having to switch back to the local fuzzy channels in SD. I just got this [...]

Entertainment Center Final Setup

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

After the festivities two weekends ago, we finally got our audio system properly installed. Once everything was hooked up to the amp (Sony HT-DDW900 Home Theater), Sony required an auto configuration that is pretty simple. Sony provides a microphone with the home theater that you place in the room where you plan on doing [...]

It is Nice!

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Look at three of the seven musketeers boozing with Borat on the big screen. Its too bad the rest of you were too gu to make it to the suare.

TV Stand

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Here is the TV stand I bought yesterday. I picked it up at BJ’s FOR $200 and it was the only one they had on the floor. I looked at couple of nice entertainment center tables/cabinets in some furniture stores around the city but I drew a firm line at 200 bones. Most [...]