Friday, November 30

I am now the world's biggest CBS fan

It's terribly bourgeois, I know, but we got a new TV over Thanksgiving.

We'd seen a good price in the KMart flier (ah! sub-bourgeois!), but weren't planning on going to KMart (or any other store) on Thanksgiving.

Plans change. Elizabeth came down with a fever on Thanksgiving day and we had to go get medicine. We tried Rite-Aid, but it was closed, so we ended up at KMart.

I decided to check the TVs, since we were there. They were out of the one we'd been looking at, but the salesdude said he'd check...

And he found one more they'd been holding for someone who never came, so we bought it!

So I've been working since then, trying to get everything set up. We needed to get a new tv stand, which after some travail (and two extra trips by Christine back to Target), we got put together yesterday.

All of that to say, our reception (we are the only people we know in Columbia without cable) is as bad as it has always been, except for 19.1, CBS is glorious HDTV.

I like CSI (the original), but never watch it. Maybe I'll have to start... ;-)

5 comments:

Dan tdaxp said...

Congratulations.

We never had a second thought after buying ours. HDTV is a nifty thing indeed.

Aaron said...

No HD here, but speaking as someone with a bit of inside knowledge, if you can get a better antenna (or an antenna), the best HD picture is over the air. Any cable or satellite signal will be compressed, and may look great, or downright mediocre depending on how much bandwidth they decide the show you are watching deserves.

Paul Stokes said...

Aaron is absolutely right. Fortunately, we have 6 English language, broadcast TV stations that have an HD sideband and several Spanish language TV stations. We have rabbit ears, and we get the stations perfectly.

Sean Meade said...

thanks for the comments. you are all awesome! :-)

guys cares about tv!

thanks for the advice, Aaron and Paul. i have rabbit ears, but they're not doing well for signal, even w/ regular broadcast tv. too many trees? thinking about a more robust antenna...

Brad B. said...

Be a real man and take a chainsaw to those trees! ;-)