in before the Coach

 

We were already PMing about it, haha!

 

You don't have to be very fast to beat me on a Friday afternoon, easpecially this week.
Near as I can tell, my brain turned to tapioca pudding sometime Tuesday morning.

I may be slow, but I've got a fat HDD attached to my DVR as well (neener, neener) - no more capacity issues.
I felt pretty good about it till Swivel rolled out 2TB (and threatened 4TB) to my 1TB. I feel so... inadequate.

 

So I'm watching Game 2 of the World Series on 52 inches of LED-backlit goodness in 5.1 surround. It's just like being there, but without the weak beer.

 

That's great Wayne!

You should never watch baseball on it though. The images move so slowly and change so rarely that it'll burn Yankee pinstripes into your screen after you fall asleep.

 

Hey you finally got it! ...the new TV that is.

That must be sweet Wayne.
....I'm afraid to even walk through Bestbuy et al these days and check these puppies out,
it would probably be a costly trip.

 

I did watch some hockey last night, too, but it was only the Oilers so, you know, not a lot of action.

Its arrival is timely, my son's 11th birthday is tomorrow (yes, he was born in the dark, early hours of Halloween) so he and four of his homies are comin' over this afternoon and plan to watch some Star Trek. Too bad the new movie is not out until Nov 17.

Ian, I know what you mean about expensive trips to the electronics store; it's so hard to resist all the cool toys. I'll be asking Santa for a Harmony remote!

 

This one???

 

that is ****ing sic! wow beats my old 27" tube tv lol

 

That's awesome Wayne, glad to hear it finally arrived. You must be loving it so far........especially for the price you got it for!

 

LMAO Craig!

 

Ummm, doubtful. Probably the cheap (?) 670, same as we have for the main floor setup. About $118.



I sure am, Shane, and the price was definitely right!!

 

How do you like the 670?

I have one of the very early models (no longer in use)
It was OK, but I'm sure they're a lot better now.

One thing I didn't like, was not having control to setup the screen buttons the way I wanted.
They just went to default assignments.

One screen would have e.g. (fastforward + pause); then (rewind + play) might be on a different screen.
Meanwhile.... both screens had inactive buttons with no function assigned.

If they've fixed that issue, I'd probably get a new one.

 

Yeah, it's a bit limited, but it fulfills the basic role of enabling one remote instead of many. In the basement alone, I have SEVEN remotes, and I think one might have gotten lost. I certainly don't have the control over the sound bar in my family room that I had with its dedicated remote before it went AWOL (hence the Harmony). With more components to control in the basement, I may opt for one with a bit more sophistication and flexibility. I have a bit of time to look into it. I also need to re-vamp my wall unit downstairs to fit this new panel in. Right now it's sitting on a plywood box that came out of my garage and was holding wood scraps. But of course I will tell people it is a "multi-laminate resonance transducer."

 

Congratulations Swivellips!