Well, Brigitte and I went out and bought a beautiful high def TV and home theatre on September 2nd. We decided on a Samsung LN-T4061F, a beautiful 40 inch 1080p LCD TV and a Yamaha home theatre system with 5.1 surround. We bought it at future shop and got a fairly good deal on it since we bought the stand and warranty with it as well. It took them about 5 days to deliver it which kinda sucked but I was blown away by the picture once we got Roger’s in to hookup the HD cable. I have so far been impressed with the picture, especially when watching football or baseball….golf also looks good but I’m not a huge golf fan. I have noticed a huge difference between different networks when it comes to the quality of their HD programming. CBS and CITYTV in Toronto look absolutely beautiful, fox on the other hand doesn’t look nearly as good. I have since learned that for some reason fox broadcasts in 720p instead of 1080i like the rest of the networks. I have also noticed that their sports tend to pixilate more readily, they must have the compression on a bit too hight to save bandwidth or something like that. All in all I’m very impressed with the new TV. I was a bit shocked last week when Survivor (one of my favorite shows) was not broadcast in HD. I guess they didn’t want to lug HD cameras around in the jungle or something…oh well, maybe next time.
I think that’s it for now, hopefully I’ll find a bit more time to blog soon.
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