HDTV & Home Theater Installation Thrills
Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!
We bought our huge 27 inch TV at The Bon in 1994. The son of MMMMMm used it in the dorm, it sat in storage for a couple of years and moved with us many, many times. Yesterday we replaced it--well, moved it up to the bedroom--and leapt into the acronym world of HDTV LCD flat screen TV, as big as would fit into the media niche in the family room, which means about 42 inches. Of course, since we went with a screen that we could actually see from the far end of the family room, we determined that we were only half way there in a home theater experience. So we bought a theater sound/DVD system. The boxes were huge but we got them in the trusty Gold Victory and home we went.
As you can imagine our fun was just beginning. We had this gaping hole to put the screen into, but there were miles of wires, ya know, that had to be hooked to many things. I noted that the DH was kind of busying himself with a bag of chips while I read the quick installation instructions. Yeah, I'm old school on the read the documentation first before tearing into whatever. Unlike the son of Mmmmmm who screams through plugging and playing, only to curse colorfully when it doesn't work quite right or at all out of the gate. I read. I work through the steps. Then I curse colorfully when the damned thing won't light off despite how many times I press the Input button. Problem is I've read right over a key step, which I can only explain as a result of my having taught speed reading for many years.
Back to the DH . . . when questioned he revealed that he was waiting for me to wire the puppy up because I'm the techy half of this couple. Hooooohaaaa. This from a flight engineer/aircraft mechanic. Of course, avionics (electronics) aren't his favorite thing, but give the man a big sucky jet engine and watch out for the paroxysm of glee! Also I must say that in the past I've assembled the computers, programmed TV,DVD and VCR, wired up the stereo and that sort of thing. So this was the sole reason the DH gave for considering me the techy of the fam. Sheeesh.
The quick installation took us only about five hours until we dragged ourselves off to bed. The thing works. We get surround sound and a great, big picture, too. Wheeee. But there are still wires everywhere. And that's driving me nuts. We've got to go to the cable store for the HDTV box and install that before we can slid everything into place and hide the wires.
We are expecting guests from Montana and eight for dinner on Thursday and I'm freaking in this mess. They may all struggle around boxes and wires to get their turkey, but we'll by God have the game on a biiiiggggg screen HDTV with surround sound. Now, that's something to be thankful for!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmelinda
We bought our huge 27 inch TV at The Bon in 1994. The son of MMMMMm used it in the dorm, it sat in storage for a couple of years and moved with us many, many times. Yesterday we replaced it--well, moved it up to the bedroom--and leapt into the acronym world of HDTV LCD flat screen TV, as big as would fit into the media niche in the family room, which means about 42 inches. Of course, since we went with a screen that we could actually see from the far end of the family room, we determined that we were only half way there in a home theater experience. So we bought a theater sound/DVD system. The boxes were huge but we got them in the trusty Gold Victory and home we went.
As you can imagine our fun was just beginning. We had this gaping hole to put the screen into, but there were miles of wires, ya know, that had to be hooked to many things. I noted that the DH was kind of busying himself with a bag of chips while I read the quick installation instructions. Yeah, I'm old school on the read the documentation first before tearing into whatever. Unlike the son of Mmmmmm who screams through plugging and playing, only to curse colorfully when it doesn't work quite right or at all out of the gate. I read. I work through the steps. Then I curse colorfully when the damned thing won't light off despite how many times I press the Input button. Problem is I've read right over a key step, which I can only explain as a result of my having taught speed reading for many years.
Back to the DH . . . when questioned he revealed that he was waiting for me to wire the puppy up because I'm the techy half of this couple. Hooooohaaaa. This from a flight engineer/aircraft mechanic. Of course, avionics (electronics) aren't his favorite thing, but give the man a big sucky jet engine and watch out for the paroxysm of glee! Also I must say that in the past I've assembled the computers, programmed TV,DVD and VCR, wired up the stereo and that sort of thing. So this was the sole reason the DH gave for considering me the techy of the fam. Sheeesh.
The quick installation took us only about five hours until we dragged ourselves off to bed. The thing works. We get surround sound and a great, big picture, too. Wheeee. But there are still wires everywhere. And that's driving me nuts. We've got to go to the cable store for the HDTV box and install that before we can slid everything into place and hide the wires.
We are expecting guests from Montana and eight for dinner on Thursday and I'm freaking in this mess. They may all struggle around boxes and wires to get their turkey, but we'll by God have the game on a biiiiggggg screen HDTV with surround sound. Now, that's something to be thankful for!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmelinda
posted by MMMelinda at 11:07 AM
