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In Reply to: yes, defintiely posted by petew on November 09, 2001 at 16:20:46:

price comes down every week the Japs have to worry about where 90% of their oil is going to come from...

it's a gas!

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not really wanting to get embroiled in some battle... - chris e. 18:29:53 11/09/01 (0)
To be frank, your statement seems rather unnecessary and a bit offensive. "Japs"? Some remnant of a WWII John Wayne movie perhaps? And if you do much of a search for info. it will probably become apparent that the economic woes in Japan are largely tied to banking/investment problems and overextension in troublesome real estate markets as well as the general downturn for the world economy rather than oil prices per se (especially considering that oil prices are not terribly high right now compared with historical highs).
you'll get a charge out of that.... - late 17:22:53 11/09/01 (5)
Actually,
while I plan on going hi-def as soon as I can, that puts it in the 2-4 timespan. But you never know, we saw a nice tv a few weeks ago; and came quite close to financial trauma. How much is that faroudja plasma thingy gonna cost?
- programing - petew 15:35:22 11/10/01 (4)
  the last two nights have convinced me that my 8-year-old 27- inch "regular' TV is just fine
  there's really nothing out there i want to see
  
  saw the final game of the World Series
  ...some of the best moments ever broadcast
  makes you realize how pointless high definition television is--
  as VK has noted time and again: "there's no 'there' there"
  there's nothing to see, no choices, no reason to spend the money...
  the failure of High Definition TV is a failure of imagination--there's absolutely nothing to see, and seeing that in "film quality" technology just makes one appreciate how pathetic life in 21st century America is
  so instead of spending $11k on a 50" plasma and another $5k on the video scaler/processor
  i bought a Kitchen Aid range:
  - Ramadam, here's a bomb
  - got a nice gas range a couple of years ago - late 09:12:26 11/11/01 (3)
    Hi,
    so call me a round heels; but I like ST:Enterprise a lot, and having never seen Farscape before, it's what I look forward to at the conclusion of a long day. So my plans are a still on. Got a SGHT the other day, and it had a review of a $3K DLP projector that the reviewer just raved over. This has me kinda excited; plasma is prob going to remain out of my ballpark, but this I could pull off. That way I could get a 6' screen without a monster of a box eating half the room.
    - the horror of HT magazines - petew 15:21:00 11/13/01 (2)
      oh my, that's what got me started...was in the bookstore with a $50 gift card and had a few bucks left over, so I pulled a few HT magazines out of the rack...and that's what got me started on this plasma screen thing
      i had no idea how big they'd gotten and how far the prices had dropped
      but the wife caught me reading it (in the bathroom...usually i keep them hid under the matress until she goes to work), and gave me a definite "NO!"
      made me feel like a dog that shit on the carpet
      so to show her who wears the pants in the family i went right out the next day and bought the Bosch diswasher and the Kitchen Aid range and an exhaust hood (vented to the outside)
      you know what...the new technology in kitchen appliances is simply awesome!
      installed the stuff myself (i'll never do THAT again!)
      now my patio is full of "used" kitchen appliances (waiting for my son-in-law to arrive with a borrowed pick-up)
      the refrigerator is next
      the house is so quiet i can hear the "chopper" on my 27" proscan TV
      all i have to do is convince the wife that that TV noise is "unacceptable" (she can't hear noise, but can detect conversations clear across a crowded restaurant with ease...occupational skill, like being able to read papers on a desk upside-down)
      I'm still holding out for the plasma (no cooling fan--it's quiet as a tomb), but it looks like I'll have to buy new cabinets and granite countertops for the kitchen first...and install a cherry floor in the master bedroom...
      any day now
      stay away from the magazine rack...especially the kitchen remodeling section
      - I subscribe to 8 mags, 2 HT, 2 stereo, Bicycling..... - late 14:20:15 11/15/01 (1)
        
        In Reply to: the horror of HT magazines posted by petew on November 13, 2001 at 15:21:00:
        
        I'm doomed :)
        Plasma is very cool. I am undecided about the whole 4:3 16:9 aspect ratio thing. I love widescreen, but most everything I watch is still 4:3, and I don't want the Star Trek crew looking fat, or Will Obeh for that matter. Fortunately, I can easily wait years to make that decision, as my money is spoken for; for quite some time to come.
        
        Re: I subscribe to 8 mags, 2 HT, 2 stereo, Bicycling..... - Jazz Inmate 21:28:01 11/16/01 (0)
        
        In Reply to: I subscribe to 8 mags, 2 HT, 2 stereo, Bicycling..... posted by late on November 15, 2001 at 14:20:15:
        
        I'm all over the plasma. . .got my eye on the Panasonic 50 incher. Now that the audio gear is paid off, I figure 6 or 7 more months eating pasta and tuna fish and it will be mine. You can set it for 4:3 and you get bars on each side of the display, but no fat star trek crew. Yeah, I get a complimentary subscription to Sound and Vision. . .there are drool stains on all the plasma shots.

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