LG

The television we had our eyes set on was sold out when we came to the store. Pretty annoying. I’d already suspected it – it was the last one from an old line of Samsung LCD’s and when I was there last morning, the salesman looked iffy as to whether it would still be there when we got back at night.

Oh well. We ended up with and LG 37lg5000 instead. 37″, full HD, 5ms responsetime. Got the cable for the XBOX and a discount as a package deal. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the thing. In all honesty, when it was packed out and assembled on our tv cabinet, I figured we could have done with a 32″ as well. I had suspected as much, even said it to Arno – thing is that the 32 and 37″ get dwarfed in the store by the adjacent 40, 42 and even 47″ screens. It’s hard to really imagine how big it’s gonna be in your livingroom. I had measured our old CRT in the afternoon – 64 cm image diagonal. The 37″ has 94 cm – that’s bigger than our entire old television, casing and all.

In any case, it’s pretty damned huge. Not too huge fortunately, it’s not as if it dwarfs the entire room. The image is pretty good, although you can see clearly now that Digitenne really REALLY does suck monkey balls. I expect a huge improvement when we switch to Casema Digital Cable which is next week. DVD’s and XBOX image now … can we say drool?

The weather is lovely yet again today – I want to go outside but I have too many things to take care of in the house. Tonight IJdo and I will be going to see Les Miserables. It seems so long ago we ordered the tickets. I remember thinking “that’s right before the wedding!” and now it’s here already. It seems unreal.

Anyhow, I’d better start doing something – might be able to enjoy the sun a little in the afternoon