Monday, March 29, 2004 |
23:00 - I have a new favorite number
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...And it's "480p".
Meaning, I just got me one of them new-fangled teleo-vision sets for my bedroom suite. The room is still a mess, and not quite laid out yet for proper use as a secondary home theater, but now at least the building blocks are in place:
It's a 32-inch flat-screen CRT, with HD input capability, that I got for about the same price I was prepared to spend on a plain non-HD TV. (They were clearing out this model for the next one that was due to be shipped in in a couple of days, which meant I got this one at a $400 discount from the sticker price-- not a bad deal at all.)
And I also got a Philips DVD/VHS combo player with component video and digital coax audio out, and progressive scan, for $100. Fry's was selling off a palette full of these things; as I was standing in line to pay for the TV, I noticed that the guy behind me and the guy in front of me both had these same DVD players-- so I went and grabbed one too. The other ones on the shelves averaged $150, and didn't have progressive scan. I'm sure there's a downside to the one I got, but I have yet to find it.
Because the player and the TV both support 480p-- 480-line, full DVD resolution, and progressive scan instead of interlaced (so there's no flicker). Once I got everything hooked up properly, hot damn it looked cool! I've never seen a system with these features all hooked up as intended before; even our downstairs system, with a much bigger full widescreen HDTV display, doesn't have a component-video/progressive-scan DVD player on it, so I never really knew what I was missing. This is something else again, lemme tell ya.
So now I have to get an AV receiver/amp that supports digital coax input for the DVD player, 480p video switching, and 5.1 speakers so I can mount the rear channels on the wall above my desk. And then I can watch Cartoon Network in one of the most decadent settings ever designed purely around the newly-released DVDs of the Adult Swim shows.
Oh: and did I buy this using my Bush tax refund? Why, yes. Yes I did.
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