Comments on: TVs (or, I Only Ever Talk About Buying Stuff)

By: Darcy Casselman

Darcy Casselman — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:40:48 +0000

You raise an excellent point.

Happy Thanksgiving! :)

By: tinkerer

tinkerer — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:50:11 +0000

Is not (she protests). "Buying stuff" is just consumerism. Building a home theatre is designing.

Duh!

By: Darcy Casselman

Darcy Casselman — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:44:16 +0000

A projector is definitely in the plans. As are a decent audio system and some modest basement renovations.

I'm pretty cheap too, though. The LCD TV is more of a stop-gap measure, and an admission that I probably don't want to fire up the projector every time I want to play Super Mario Galaxies.

I should probably do a post about the whole home theatre thing. Even if it is mostly about buying stuff...

By: tinkerer

tinkerer — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:10:38 +0000

Asked the beau about if he could use his projector for Tv programming. He said he could, if he plugged the projector into the computer with the Tv card, but that regular broadcast doesn’t actually look very good that way–it loses too much resolution. He said that HDTv would be fine. But he isn’t willing to pay for that cable service option, it costs a fair amount more than his basic package. (Like I said, he’s a bit of a nip-cheese…)

So there you go, Squirrel! Just buy a projector and a bedsheet, pick up a second-hand couch or two, toss in a couple of speakers and voila! You’ll be filling your walls with Dr. Who in no time! :D

By: tinkerer

tinkerer — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:44:25 +0000

My beau has a basement "home theatre"... nothing too ambitious, 'cause he's a bit of a cheapskate ;> He's got a cast-off couch, another seat (small but multi-person) of sorts on a shallow plywood platform right behind it, and a white bed sheet tacked on the wall. Oh, and a large throw rug on the cement floor. The REAL investment was his projector, which he's got tied into a computer somehow so that he loads a dvd, signs on to his home network via WindowXP, and runs the movie that way. And speakers. I forgot about the speakers. Some rather big ones in the corners, and maybe a couple of littler ones next to them. What do they call those, tweaters or something? Or maybe they are all just regular speakers of different sizes. I dunno. I also don't know, although he's got all of his TV stuff on his home network (I can't even begin to maneuver through his remotes!), if he could somehow show actual TV programming through the projector. If not, I don't suppose that would be any help for a Dr. Who festival, just an anime frenzy. ;>

But you see, doesn't have to be fancy. Unless your friends are snobs. In which case, poor you!

(Of course, you could always buy the LCD, and then move it into your basement later as an added feature when your theatre finally manifests...)