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• the horror of HT magazines - petew 15:21:00 11/13/01 (2)
  In Reply to: got a nice gas range a couple of years ago posted by late on November 11, 2001 at 09:12:26:

  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
  
  

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  • 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.
    
    

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    • 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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