It’s a bit large…
Yesterday I took delivery of my new 32" Samsung LE32R87BDX (big mouthful thar) HDTV. I have been agonising over purchasing a HD screen for ages now but finally jumped on board after the recent purchase of my Xbox 360’s HD-DVD player. While I was day-dreaming away in my office at work, the delivery man phones up saying that he’s just delivered it at my home. I almost got knocked out by an Australian backpacker as I jumped onto the bus and dashed home…to find the biggest box I’ve seen in ages. Took me a solid 10 minutes just to drag the box up to my room!
Upon unpacking the screen, it’s just hard to describe how gorgeous the thing looks in it’s lovely reflective finish, which sadly also makes it a fingerprint magnet. HD video on it looks utterly crystal clear and so defined, once you turn off the post processing features that are enabled by default. This thing is gorgeous. Now for those who will tell me to wall mount it, I’m afraid it’s not possible on these walls….they’re made of something that isn’t your standard household masonry. Suffice to say that drilling into these walls is a mission and a half and I will end up with a huge amount of broken drill bits - I speak from experience.
Sadly I had to ditch my twin 19" Widescreen TFT’s that I use with my PC, just so I could fit that HDTV on my desk. So I’m back to a single 20.1" Widescreen for the PC now. Not good, it feels really odd to work with. Anyway, it’s a Bank Holiday weekend (Monday is a public holiday) so I’ll be spending it with me girlfriend chilling out and watching HD-DVD’s on me new tele \o/
Yippie-kay-yay, motherhubbard!
Ragh! Recently I’ve had a ton of cash burning a hole in my pocket, so what better way to splash out then to purchase some LCD screens for my PC? As I’ve previously mentioned, I’ve been hunting for a single large screen LCD or two larger then 17" LCD widescreens. In the end I found some mid-end LCD’s going for roughly £130 each! They’ve got both DVI and VGA connections, so I’m totally sorted!
I should mention that they’re made by Hanns-G….Yes, Hanns Gruber himself, the man who tried to rob the Nakatomi Tower in Los Angeles, from the film Die Hard! Bruce Willis mate, you failed to realise that after you saw Hanns fall off the top of the building, he bounced off the fat doughnut eating cop and survived. He went on to make quality LCD’s! So thats one 20.1" Belinea LCD for the Xbox 360 on the left, and the twin 19" Hanns-G LCD’s for my pc. Overkill? Oh yus!
I’ve been so busy lately that I’ve had very little time to write up my weekly thoughts let alone anything else. At work I am training other people to do some of my jobs in order to take the pressure off me, which leaves me mentally exhausted towards the end of the day! Right now there is a critical situation where one of our products has started failing horribly - as there’s a multi million dollar contract for this item, sorting out the issues has made it a top priority for me.
Some cool news in regards to this is that I’ll be possibly flying to either Singapore or Australia to talk to some engineers who work at other divisions of the same company I work at. It’ll be a short stay but I’ll try going sight seeing if I can. It’s a nice feeling to have such a strong objective in my life right now and this is so important to me, it’s also cool to be backed up by the company as I try and sort these issues out. Just need a company car now please ahem *cough*…
Over the past few days I’ve had a horrible dilemma which may sound rather geeky to most. I’ve got 3 TFT LCD screens in my room. Two are 17" screens which I use for my pc. I’ve become so spoilt by the benefits this provides me with that I feel someone naked now as I type this on one remaining screen. I’ve got a buyer for the other screen who will be taking it away today. I might as well sell this remaining 17" and get something BIGGER! So…at the end of the day I have a choice.
I’ve ended up opting for the first option. So last night I ordered one 19" widescreen just to see how much desk space the thing will occupy. I’m not sure I can fit two of these beasts on my desk so I’ll get them separately at first. So hopefully by the weekend it’ll have arrived without any defects and I’ll be happy again!
Feel cold and sweaty while I await my VGA cable from play.com, just so I can actually use the sodding console on my decent TFT screens instead of a piddly 14" TV with a mono speaker. It’s so bad that I cannot bear to play Project Gotham Racing 3 in such horrible fashion. Urgh! Bring on Tuesday 13th!
