Fifty inch flat screen....

Fifty inch flat screen....

April 20th -- During the week before the super bowl back in late January, most televisions went on sale as the new models were about to hit the stores.  I have not purchased a television for about 20 years, and the analogue TV that I do own works great.  After I connected it to an analogue-digital converter box when over-the-air broadcasting switched from analogue to digital several years ago, I went from about 8 broadcast stations to 35, but there really isn't much I'm interested in watching other than the local and national news and sports.  I use the TV mostly for watching movies that I stream.  I am not a cable or satellite subscriber because I disagree with how these companies operate (support net neutrality!) and unless they move to a "pay as you go" model so that I could subscribe only to those channels I want to watch instead of 100s of home shopping or foreign-language channels, I will continue to watch movies or stream content.   Nevertheless, an upgrade was in order, and after much encouragement from a very persuasive friend,  I purchased a 50" smart TV and have been storing that TV in said friend's house since February.  Although the TV mount was already installed, I wanted to wait until alot of the dust-making parts of construction was over before bringing the new TV in.  This weekend we installed the new TV in the Gathering Room without a hitch.

The flat screen LCD technology is amazing and although I have a temporary "wireless" connection to the Internet, I was able to surf the Internet and stream on the new TV.  Once the floors are refinished in my upstairs office, I will move my computer and router back in and then there will be a hard-wired Ethernet connection between this TV and the Internet.

The TV works great, but as is the story of my life, there weren't enough of the appropriate cables and connectors to hook up the surround sound system (including subwoofer) to the digital AV receiver.  In a few days once all the cables are on site, we should be good to go.

Some of my friends have said that between this home entertainment set up and my green house, they are worried that I will never leave my house again and that they won't ever see me unless they come over!