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Old 02-14-2005, 12:13 PM   #1
Mr. Sandman
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TV blew up

Friday, settling in for a night of DVD's with the spouse in PJ's...about 15 minutes before the end of the movie FooP! POW!! ... end of the tube. forever.

There must have been a short or something in the gun cus' it is #$%^&*(#$%^&* up. It was a 35" mits but it is toast now. Had it for a while, no complaints, more then got my $ from it.

Did some research on todays units and had to replace it while out and about on Sunday. Walked into Circuit City on the way back from the Worcester show and made the fastest sale the sales guy ever had.
Hi, can I help you sir....
Uh, yeah, I see from the internet that you have the Sony..model.... in stock.
Let me check....yes we do.
Fine I'll take it.
OK
I had it loaded in my truck and drove away...all in about 12 minutes.

My wife said "Guys are amazing, you don't need to walk around the store and look at all the models?"
Nope, I knew exacty what I wanted and picked this store cause it was on my way and they had it in stock, no need to look at anything else or waste time in there. (although that store had a ton of great stuff in there)


Just hooked up the high def DVR ...very sweet. NESN and ESPN2 in high def now I will never miss another fishing channel again
80 hours of backed up fishing sw shows.

One thing about High Def that no one tells you.....The quality of the regular broadcast (non high def) is not quite as good as it was with the regular box. It is good but It is a little better with the non high def box. The high def and movie channels are awesome. I was just watching golf and it is amazing. I hope I can get back to work now
The whole high def thing is not exactly plug and play..you have the complex connections between the TV and the BOX to your home entertainment sys. Everything wants to be in control and there are numerous modes of high def and screen modes and remotes that all want to be the boss. The permutations are insane. Frankly I think they need to work it all out and come up with a single ON button that deals with it all. That said, once you have it set up ...the picture is breathtaking in 1080 mode.

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