Home Theater Shopping...

Ever since my wonderful, movie-fanatic, lovely, electronics-friendly, awesome wife told me she thought we should get a nice HDTV and new home theater components, I've been running around like crazy trying to find out how to get the most bang for my buck. What the heck is happening here?

We are pretty much replacing everything. About the only thing that might be reused is my old 8" powered sub which resides in the back of our current A/V nook under the stairs. I don't remember the brand. I got it for $40 from Onsale.com about 7 years ago, to complement my soon to be replaced equipment. It has all aged well, with the possible exception of our DVD player that we had to get when my wife-to-be tried to give me some line about how she thought it would be easier to watch DVDs by using a DVD player rather than my highly customized, but not easy to use computer. We got a JVC DVD player, and it has had little hiccups every once in a while, but not bad until we got our latest DVD, Madagascar. That moved up the replacement date for the DVD player as well.

So as of now, we are watching the new DVD player (Samsung DVD-HD850), and we have ordered the receiver (Pioneer VSX-815S), a set of speakers home theater speakers (KLH MP06HT), and a wireless rear speaker contraption (Pioneer XW-HT1) so we don't have to run wires too far, because I am rather lazy like that.

All we have to worry about in a few months will be the TV and stand. I'm looking at any 1080p RPTV and an appropriately nice stand to hold four components. Within a year, I hope to be rid of the "Evil Comcast STB" and back in the welcoming arms of a cable card ready TIVO, or some other PC-based HD PVR.

Hahahaha!!

Obviously, not much is happening here.

7 Month Later...

Still Nothing. Go figure...

I heard the most interesting thing today...

On the way home from work, I heard that the Washington Redskins have a perfect record of predicting the outcome of presidential elections ever since they moved to Washington DC in 1937. When they win their last game before election day, the incumbent party wins. When they lose, of course, the challenging party wins.

The particular game in question will be played in DC against the Packers on October 31st. Neither team is having a great season. How many players on each team are going to try to cast their vote and change the course of the future by doing what they can to see that their candidate wins?

No.1

Well, now that I have reserved a parking spot for my own blog, I guess I should do something with it. To start with, I'll be writing about my experiences in my professional life and interesting tidbits I hear about related to technology. As well as that, I'll throw in bits about the media and some of my own personal interests. Let's see if this actually does anything, shall we?