Monthly Archives: August 2004

Took it back.

Had some audio dropout issues with the Samsung SIR-T351, which are actually, as I found later, somewhat well documented and have been for some time.
They didn’t have another, so I just got my money back and will continue to look for other opportunities.
Amanda and I are going to go out today and take a look [...]

Might be a change of plans.

I might be taking back the Samsung HD received in the near future - I have been reading some rather unflattering things about it and would like to look into another model made by LG.
It’s a combo DVD player and HD receiver, which is an interesting idea. It also has a pass-through for NTSC [...]

How HDTV works in Saint Louis. It’s a little weird.

So we get excellent HD reception here, for the most part.
How HD works - and I wasn’t entirely clear on this in the first part - is that there’s a tremendous amount of bandwidth they are able to send you with the main television signal. A lot of digital television programming runs on what [...]

Phase one is complete.

Also with bonus Olympic coverage commentary!
I’ll fill in a lot of this entry with more information in the near future - most of that will be filling links that I’d like to have so people can see what I’m talking about, and maybe get some photographs or six in to demonstrate, but that’s another story. [...]