Stuff

[kirinn]

So, hey, stuff's been happening and I haven't posted anything recently. Still got plenty to do, so I'll sum up

Comments

[akiko]

I think you mean tri-ennial.

Speaking of St Louis, call the neighbors re cat-sitting!

[donaithnen]

I saw akiko's post about the new TV and was waiting for you to say something about it so i could pester you directly for details :)

So how does it handle standard definition inputs?

[kirinn]

Pretty well. It has a ton of different input lines. It's got the usual old coax input, which I currently have hooked to SD cable, and it handles that just fine (including an auto-scan to set up the channels). Sure, it looks crappy compared to HD, but it's nothing so distracting that it's a problem once you start watching something. I'm pretty sure it also has at least one set of SD A/V (aka RCA, composite) cable inputs, but I haven't used those. Also an S-Video (which is slightly nicer SD), I think? If you care about the details I can look later.

Mostly I'm piping in HD from the PS3 via HDMI, or HD from a Mac laptop using a DVI-to-HDMI converter. (There's also a straight-up VGA input on the TV, but I went with the HDMI converter because there's an extra HDMI-in on the side of the TV, which is easier for something that's not hooked up all the time.)