Television

In the last few months (I need to research this and input the actual date, it was in 2010) we got a new TV, eventually slated for the kitchen, but put into immediate use in the master bedroom replacing the finally dead Emprex piece of junk. It quit turning on via the button on the frame, then wouldn’t turn on with the remote unless first unplugged then plugged back in, then it quit turning on no matter what. Which was all fine with me as it was a 720p HDMI TV with no HDMI plugged into it, and more than half the screen gone with white or black lines or blanked out. I’d shrunk the picture to be just the middle of the screen, a traditional square tv image, in other words, but the lines eventually started on the right side and grew and grew. It was a TV and is still one that might have/or will be able to be fixed but it’s one that I wouldn’t care to have fixed at all, so it’s in the garage until we figure out where to bring it.

The TV we did get is a lovely Vizio 23″ Razor – VM230VXT — true 1080 HDMI LED (mercury free!) with flat glass edge to edge (no “frame”) and touch sensing controls on the bottom left of the screen (on/off volume, menu, etc.) and also ambient light sensing for better picture in different lighting scenarios.

Eventually we’ll get a new TV for the living area and retire the current tv there to the master bedroom, a 37″ Vizio 1080 HD tv.

We’d like to get a 42″ Vizio 3D HD tv … that is what we are considering for later this year.

The other main thing is DirecTV. We are still getting standard signal from them, utilizing our older DirecTivo DVR’s, which we know we would prefer over the newer DirecTV DVR’s … but haven’t jumped to HD with them yet because of not knowing what kind of HD DVR they have that we’d want, waiting for DirecTivoHD to come first to make a decision, so far nothing going on except for possible boxes like that coming that will be good or will be not so good, but no actual boxes.

I’d do more research right now, but Directv.com isn’t letting me login or get anywhere. Click on anything and it’s like the stone age. Nothing changes, only semi-freezes. Awful.