Our Family's New Bundle of JoySome of life's milestones:
July 10, 1993: I married my wife. When she gets out of hand, I refer to her as my "first wife"
April 1995: Undergraduate degree awarded from University
October 20, 1998: My first child is born, we name him Ryan.
December 1998: Technical diploma awarded from Tech Institute
June 20, 2003: My second child is born, we name him Andrew
May 17, 2007: Our Family goes HD, welcomes first HDTV set to home.
November 2013: I win municipal election, become Mayor.
Well, the last milestone hasn't happened yet. The next-to-last milestone happened at 1:30pm today. After much much research, many late nights on the computer researching HDTV's, a local electronics store agreed to my secret strike-price.
In researching this, I considered all angles. Plasma or LCD? What size? How many inputs? What's the response time? And I did eventually come down to two candidates: the Samsung LNS4696D, and the Sharp LC42D62U. I was going to go Sammy, but the local place just gave me a deal I couldn't refuse. But it was, by no means, a step down. The specs are rock solid for the Sharp.
After setting it up, plugging the Shaw HDTV DCT receiver to the TV, I tuned it in to the HDNet channel, the channel whose existence is only to show off HD's capabilities. I watched. I wept. High Definition only degraded because of the tears. This truly was a joyous day.
So, now I await my first HD hockey game: Sens / Sabres, which will broadcast tomorrow. I purchased adult diapers for the occasion. I also am eager to watch the Heroes season finale on Monday. This HD thing could take some getting used to.
But our new addition to our family will never replace our children. After all, you can't claim an HDTV on your tax return.
3 comments:
Congratulations. Really. Sincerely. It is good to see a man grab some happiness by the horns and wrestle it to the ground leaving it wondering what the hell it ever did to deserve to be chased and have its horns shoved in the mud and have neck pain for weeks. Anyway, what I mean to say is: Nice tv. You should've bought the Samsung though...
It was whisker close, but I ended up going Sharp on (1) cost, (2) response time, and (3) better lamp rating. I would've EASILY gone Sammy if the guy hadn't made me a screaming deal.
BTW: he looked just like the comic book dealer from the Simpsons.
Either TV aside, its freaking awesome, having had it in my home now for a week now.
Yeah, I'll bet you are enjoying your tv—I don't have an hd terminal for mine yet, but it still rocks.
Funny how many "Comic Book Guys" there are out there. Doppelgangers. Someone should get them together for a convention.
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