Comments | antwondotcom: leveling up our living room

antwondotcom

leveling up our living room

May 27, 2008 13:06

Ealasaid and I had our first anniversary a couple of weeks ago. Our "paper" anniversary, I guess it's called - though I couldn't think of anything I especially wanted that was made out of paper. "Innumerable twenty-dollar bills", I guess... though I think U.S. currency is actually mostly cotton-based, so that was out ( Read more... )

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antwondotcom May 28 2008, 23:24:06 UTC

If you do it right, you can get that whole "I am in the front row of the movie theater and getting car-sick from looking at the screen" effect going on and everything. :)

mezlick May 27 2008, 22:09:31 UTC

Wow that is one big level up on the TV. I am impressed!

antwondotcom May 28 2008, 19:47:16 UTC

This is what happens when one only upgrades one's hardware once in a blue moon. Every purchasing experience turns into an exercise in revolutionary improvement!

lunacow May 27 2008, 23:05:22 UTC

But apparently, in contrast with every other HDTV I have ever had the misfortune of playing on, I got everything spot-on awesome within fifteen minutes or so.

How? How? Please tell us! Our TV isn't even HD, just lowdef flat screen, but the lag sucks.

antwondotcom May 28 2008, 23:23:11 UTC

Oh, wow - crappy lag on a low-definition flat screen? Man, that's brutal. (I think every non-fancy system I've ever seen, keeping the lag adjustments zeroed out worked fine.) Anyway, here are some general instructions that should work for either Guitar Hero III or Rock Band - I prefer the latter because the rectangular notes are easier for me to eyeball and its game engine is slightly easier to work with, but either will do in a pinch ( ... )

lunacow May 29 2008, 17:57:30 UTC

Thanks much for the explanation. Sounds like torture. After some lengthy debate among the band about whether we do have a lag and what the nature of it is, we tweaked the calibration, played a few songs, and then debated again about lag. And then had to go to bed. So, we'll keep working at it.

junglemonkee May 27 2008, 23:08:01 UTC

Here's my idea: In that space in front of your kitchen sink (you know - the space that leads into your hallway) you need to construct some kind of giant stand for this behemoth. then, you need to get rid of all that silly foliage on your patio and put in a couple of la-Z-boiz. Run the sound system out to the back, there (I'm thinking some kind of drive-in-movie setup, WITH car-window-hanging boxes, but with better sound) and you guys are fully good to go.

I'm a GENIUS.