We just finished watching the latest episode of Monk, a Superbowl tribute. The plot wasn't too bad and I rarely cringed. In fact, for the first time in weeks I laughed out loud at one point. What used to be my favorite tv show has recently been dismal but maybe they can revive it if this is any indication.
In other news, I learned our Philips DVD DVP5992 player is even more awesome than I had thought. Not only will it upconvert DVDs to 1080i or 720p, not only will it play nearly every video format from AVI to MG1 or 2, but it has a USB port on the front that works great, too. I dumped some video files I'd encoded from DVDs I own onto a 4gig card and it played nearly all of them flawlessly. It won't play back MP4 files I encoded for my iPod Touch but it did everything else great. I could pay a ridiculous sum to Apple to get component AV cables to play videos on my Touch onto my HDTV but that's not likely since I dislike being ripped off.
The Westinghouse SK-40H520S 40" LCD HDTV remains my best online purchase in about 10 years and that's really saying something. Thank you eBay and Paypal for offering me such a great deal. 40 inches of 720P bliss and even regular tv and DVDs look better on the bigger screen.
But if when I add my new HD Dish DVR VIP722 the picture is even better, the resolution is far better even than an upconverted DVD. I was happy to take the 722 instead of the 622 (which I'd ordered) and I'm glad the tech didn't have the correct model with him. Almost twice the storage and I didn't have to pay the extra $100 to get it. I can also activate it's USB port (for $40) and add unlimited storage to it via an external hard drive. That should arrive in a few days and I'll update with the results when it does.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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