Oh, baby! The new television has been installed and is working just great. I had to resist the urge to start re-watching all my movies since I can now see them much, much bigger. Whoo!<\/p>\n
Every single person that has found out I have gotten the television has asked, “Does this mean you are going to get cable now?” The answer to that question is “NO!” I still think there aren’t enough good programs out there to warrent me taking on a $$ cable\/satellite bill.<\/p>\n
Yup. The television is just for watching movies … lots of movies … and hosting some cool movie marathon parties.<\/p>\n
One thing that I did discover this weekend is that your regular dvd player will look just fine on a HDTV as long as you are able to hook it up using component video<\/strong><\/a> cables as opposed to the standard composite (yellow, red, white) cables. I first used the composite cables and the picture looked pretty bad … all fuzzy and pixelated. So, I went out and got some component cables and things are looking much better. Granted, I am not currently getting the 720 or 1080 resolution that the television delivers, but it’s good for me for right now. I imagine at some point in the future I will upgrade to a dvd player that upconverts with an HDMI cable<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n So, if you plan on purchasing a fancy television like this … I think you can ignore the sales pitch that you have to buy a new upconvert dvd player immediately. Get those component cables and you’ll be real happy … like I am!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh, baby! The new television has been installed and is working just great. I had to resist the urge to start re-watching all my movies since I can now see them much, much bigger. Whoo! Every single person that has found out I have gotten the television has asked, “Does this mean you are going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-C3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}