I found another one!! But I can't find where to buy it!

The South Shore Furniture model 4395 is one that my wife got rather excited about. I happen to think it is rather nice as well. The only problem is that I can't figure out where to get one from yet. South Shore claims on their website that the Burlington Coat Factory in Lakewood sells their products, but their website only shows South Shore's bedroom furniture. I may have to break down and ***eeek*** call them on the phone to find out what can be done. Then again, maybe I can depend on context sensitive advertising (see above) to tell me where I can find the South Shore Furniture Model 4395 Entertainment Center. We'll see if that works.

It's All About the Box

I'm not going to be able to add to this very often after the TV gets here, but the focus is now on the box to get wedged under it. The biggest constraint will be width. The wall which everything will be parked in front of is about 75 inches wide between two doorways. The TV we are getting is 57 inches wide, and I have a subwoofer I'd like to place beside the whole thingwhich measures about 12 inches wide. This means we need to find a TV stand less than 63 inches wide, but not less than 57 inches so that the TV (and it's side mounted buttons) doesn't hang over the sides. On top of that, we'd like it to be reasonably tall enough that the munchkins can migrate around the floor in front of the TV and not totally block the picture as seen from the sofa.

The one I like the most so far is the Bush Industries model VS13588-03 . This TV stand has a nice bit of storage in the form of 3 drawers across the top, but I'd like something that would allow more of the components to be completely hidden as the TV we will be buying has extra IR transmitters. For my wife, who would like to keep the equipment out of sight if possible (why did I go to all the trouble of buying everything in a nice matching shade of silver again?), we are trying to find a more aethetically pleasing cabinet of sorts to satisfy this need, but I haven't found much so far. There are plenty of attractive stands available, but most of them are of the "open architecture" variety. Let me know if you find any!

You'll never guess what happened tonight...

I told my wife she could go out to console her friend about something (that didn't need to be my business and still remains no business of mine) and gave her some money thinking that she would be needing to pay for dinner and maybe a few drinks. Her friend ended up taking care of my wife, which I am quite happy about. Seriously. It's not the way I would have preferred to learn about it, but I'm always glad to find someone else willing to help watch out for my girl.

Thanks, Katie! :^)

I think I just heard a snore. Yeah!! I have to use a new term here: Tipped. Beyond Tipsy. She's the sweetest thing with an attitude you'll ever find, and I was amazed to find her as drunk as many boys I knew when I was in the Navy (not that there weren't a whole lot more that were worse, this one didn't warrant a Drunk Watch). Having never seen her this Tipped, I got quite an education about different topics. For instance, I never knew what a great thing vodka is after it's been microwaved for exactly 17 seconds.

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I just got back from the first bucketwashing----- and now the second filling. Unlike most of my experiences with drunken individuals, I've never seen one before that was so hard to get to sleep.----- Number 3. I don't think she's got much left to worry about now.

I don't often take the chance to say this, but I do love her and treasure the way she gets inspired by events around her. She makes me better.

Maybe we'll try something a little better.

After visiting the "local" Video Only store in Tacoma, and seeing what they had in stock now, the new target for purchase is the 62MX195. They've got it for $3399 before tax and delivery, but the lowest I have it purchased and delivered to me from a Pricegrabber listed merchant is currently $3498. Being able to have a local merchant to complain to is very important for this types of item. Thanks Video Only!

This is actually a much nicer set than the 62HM195 in that is has the VGA input that I decided I didn't need, but still want, and a network interface to stream music or browse pictures stored on your home network. And since it is a 2-megapixel screen, it should be the best way possible for us to look at photos. This model has better Video processing and, while we won't be using them, audio capabilities as well. We'll see how soon which bonuses come in to see when we can buy it.

Does This Work?

This is my first attempt at emailing a post to the old Blogstead. I'm trying to see if this will make it any easier to format text.

And the Winner Is:

For now, The Plan is to buy the Toshiba 62HM195. I decided that a VGA input is not going to be a determining factor for family entertainment "needs". This decision has been reached through a long drawn out process that started just before our trip to Ohio. We stopped by our local Magnolia Audio Video on our way to SeaTac. There were more 1080P sets there than I have seen anywhere else. Allison was blown away by the picture, finally able to appreciate the clarity these machines can deliver. They had models from Samsung, Mitsubishi, and Sony, and we definitely enjoyed them all. The fun part for me was seeing Allison's look of glee when presented with the idea that we will have a picture looking that good in our own living room.

The amazing thing about it was that my wife said 56 inches was going to be too small. She wanted us to move up another notch in size. That caught me by surprise. She has often been critical of folks getting a TV too big for their viewing area. I was careful not to go for the 60" sets for that reason. I figured they would still be alright, but wanted to pick a safer size range. With the added size we have to watch a little more closely for the correct size of stand. The nice thing about the Toshiba models is that they come with IR transmitters to allow you to control devices which are hidden away. This opens up the options for TV stands even more. We can potentially hide everything but the TV away, out of sight, and away from prying eyes and fingers. I don't see how it can get any better than that. I'll let you know about the cabinets when I can.