Life in Techno Heaven/Hell
Sorry I haven’t been blogging much the past few days.
I’ve been trying to pull together a home theater system and the whole process has been making me kind of crazy. Between researching and evaluating receivers, speakers, HDTV tuners, screens, HDMI, DVI, component, RCA connections as well as antennas, I feel like I’ve been living in a kind of techno-hell.
On the one hand, I’m amazed at the technology and what you are able to have in your own home at a relatively modest cost but on the other, it’s often difficult to sort out the sales hype from the reality of what will give me the kind of high-performance, low-maintenance, competitively-priced system that I want.
I’ve been reading a lot on the Internet related to building home theater systems and I could have been blogging a lot of it but that would be just another “job” that I don’t really have the time or energy for right now.
I quickly learned that an inexpensive “theater in a box” could greatly improve the picture and sound on my 10-year-old CRT TV, so much so that I wondered if I really wanted or needed to go any further.
On projects like this, however, I’ve learned that once the fever takes hold of me, it’s got to run its course.
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