My current JVC 27" CRT tv in my living room is going out and I've been deciding on what to replace it with the past couple of weeks. The main thing I have to keep in mind when making my decision (and I have not seen it discussed in this thread specifically) is our current entertainment center. Don't a lot of people have large pieces of furniture housing their current TVs? I know most geeks have them sitting on cheap stands purchased at Fry's (I would fall into this group, but I'm married and my wife is a decorator), but I'm talking about the others that have living rooms with a TV in it, not a room made for watching TV/movies - which is ideal but most folks don't have this separate media room.
Our ent. center is a really nice piece that goes well in our living room. ~90% of all (> 32") LCD TVs won't fit in a piece of furniture like this and the price is way out of whack when compared to a CRT (even an HD Sony model). I'm forced to go with a 36" CRT (which will BARELY fit in the ent. center - a 32" will probably "fit" better - it won't look like it was jammed in there). The alternative is to get rid of the nice piece of furniture (in a recessed cubbyhole) then go totally custom with the solution where the sky is the limit b/c at that point, I'm pretty much remodeling my living room for a damn home theater setup. All I want is a new TV.
I guess it's a heavy CRT (for ~$1000 - ugh) for me until I take the Home Depot courses necessary to remodel my living room;-)
Just another point of view when considering upgrading to newer stuff. Or, in my case, replacing an older set that's going out.
This just in: "Today NASA discovered a new type of 'super-coder' on Mars. These hyper-intelligent beings exist in vast numbers and are willing to do contract development for 1/3 the price of today's Indian resource pool currently gutting the American I/T industry."
Tom Smykowski from Office Space: "I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
If we learned anything from the movie 'Independence Day', we know that any spacecraft can be brought down by a virus. So NASA should just fire up the 'ol Powerbook and upload a virus to bring down Hubble. Problem solved.
The man ran the country into the shitter, and got off scot-free.
It's really too bad that 'reasonable Americans' such as yourself espouse idiotic and untrue junk like this. Did that statement come from the official DNC newsletter this month?
Here, Here. The less 'the peoples elected representatives' (read Congress) do, the better off we are. Fewer laws = more freedoms.
No more corporate welfare! If the music industry will worry about the product they are pushing - the music - then they will make more money. As it is, the drivel that's coming from the major music labels these days just isn't worth my ~$13-$17/cd, generally speaking. So download that one good song from the new album of choice and go about your business. So now I'm a criminal b/c I know bad music when I hear it.
The next thing we know, they will be going after people giving their opinions on their legislative performance. Welcome to our neo-Socialistic state. Ain't it great!
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My current JVC 27" CRT tv in my living room is going out and I've been deciding on what to replace it with the past couple of weeks. The main thing I have to keep in mind when making my decision (and I have not seen it discussed in this thread specifically) is our current entertainment center. Don't a lot of people have large pieces of furniture housing their current TVs? I know most geeks have them sitting on cheap stands purchased at Fry's (I would fall into this group, but I'm married and my wife is a decorator), but I'm talking about the others that have living rooms with a TV in it, not a room made for watching TV/movies - which is ideal but most folks don't have this separate media room.
;-)
Our ent. center is a really nice piece that goes well in our living room. ~90% of all (> 32") LCD TVs won't fit in a piece of furniture like this and the price is way out of whack when compared to a CRT (even an HD Sony model). I'm forced to go with a 36" CRT (which will BARELY fit in the ent. center - a 32" will probably "fit" better - it won't look like it was jammed in there). The alternative is to get rid of the nice piece of furniture (in a recessed cubbyhole) then go totally custom with the solution where the sky is the limit b/c at that point, I'm pretty much remodeling my living room for a damn home theater setup. All I want is a new TV.
I guess it's a heavy CRT (for ~$1000 - ugh) for me until I take the Home Depot courses necessary to remodel my living room
Just another point of view when considering upgrading to newer stuff. Or, in my case, replacing an older set that's going out.
This just in: "Today NASA discovered a new type of 'super-coder' on Mars. These hyper-intelligent beings exist in vast numbers and are willing to do contract development for 1/3 the price of today's Indian resource pool currently gutting the American I/T industry."
Tom Smykowski from Office Space: "I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
If we learned anything from the movie 'Independence Day', we know that any spacecraft can be brought down by a virus. So NASA should just fire up the 'ol Powerbook and upload a virus to bring down Hubble. Problem solved.
The man ran the country into the shitter, and got off scot-free.
It's really too bad that 'reasonable Americans' such as yourself espouse idiotic and untrue junk like this. Did that statement come from the official DNC newsletter this month?
Here, Here. The less 'the peoples elected representatives' (read Congress) do, the better off we are. Fewer laws = more freedoms.
No more corporate welfare! If the music industry will worry about the product they are pushing - the music - then they will make more money. As it is, the drivel that's coming from the major music labels these days just isn't worth my ~$13-$17/cd, generally speaking. So download that one good song from the new album of choice and go about your business. So now I'm a criminal b/c I know bad music when I hear it.
The next thing we know, they will be going after people giving their opinions on their legislative performance. Welcome to our neo-Socialistic state. Ain't it great!
Fuck Congress.