Zim, HD, and the Return
I am supposed to be working right now... but the task I am trying to do is impossible because I cannot connect to the computer upon which the task needs to be completed, so instead I will give you all a quick update.
Friday last week I did not work as I have accrued nearly a week of overtime already since I returned from Japan (and I that is after I already took some additional time off to burn accrued time). I took this oppertunity to go TV shopping. I started at Future Shop. I told the sales person I was ready to buy, and that I expected him to start with his best possible offer or I would walk. The f*cker opted to play games with me, so I did as I said and walked. I hope he is still standing there waiting for me to return from lunch. Let this be a warning to all sales people out there. If you try to screw me, I will bring you to the brink of a sale, and once you have gathered all of the items, and obtained a cart to put them on, if you have f*cked with me, I will walk and make you put it all back!
So I was going to head to Visions since they had the TV I had chosen via the Internet on for a good price (infact it was their price by which I was judging the FS salesman's price by). But instead thought I would take Amber's advice and try London Drugs in Mission. There they had a beautiful 42" Toshiba Regza on sale for 1299. It was not the TV I had chosen but had great picture quality, nice black levels, and stunning colours. The salesman I talked to there was upfront that he had no negotiating power without his manager who would be in that afternoon. So I killed an hour and came back. I told the man in the blue shirt who had sent me and instantly the price dropped... told him I needed a stand, HD DVD player and some cabling too, down again. By the time the smoke cleared, I had everything I was after that day PLUS some, and the price after taxes was LESS than the price before taxes at FS.
Sunday I picked up my new toy and set it up, played some XBox 360 on it (wow what a difference), but since the DVD player would not be in till Monday, no movies for me.
I return on Monday for the DVD player, only to find that someone had mistakenly sold them all! While my blue shirted salesman looked for a solution I spotted something I had spent almost the entire last year looking for... the complete Invader Zim series on DVD. Well I picked that up too, along with the next model up of DVD player (no additional charge).
So Monday night becomes DVD test night... I start with the two HD DVDs that came with the player (300 and Bourne Identity). As expected, vary awsome. Then the true black level contrast test, Batman Begins. Now this is just the normal DVD, on my HD Upconverting player and HOLY SHIT its better than I could have expected. I can't wait to try it on the HD DVD disc that is available.
Last night I tried Zim on the new machines, and even that looks way impressive.
To the now... I am at work, barely able to concentrate, since tomorrow (as if you didn't know) Anna returns! Woot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably be a while for the next post, but then again, who knows... only the Shadow!