Friday, July 18, 2008
Several years outdated.
I must probably be the only one in Singapore with a CRT-TV and an Analog Starhub setup box at home...This entry might have sounded like it was meant to be written several years ago!
Today wasn't all rosy and stuff. I went to Starhub to replace my antique analog setup box with a digital one. Okok, I know what you might be saying.
"What? MK still using analog stuff??? I thought he had the whole house wired!"
Okay, I know you guys out there have HUBSTATION or a Slingbox/boombox or even a TIVO, but whatever, still I don't use the TV in the house at all, as you can see it's still CRT. However my family is quite happy with it. But they have no idea of the new capabilities now the analog setup box is gone and with the digital one in place.
Okay, now I have a Samsung 5.1 theatre surround system, a Pioneer 250Gb DVD/Harddrive-recorder that can play mp3/divx/avi and a whole lot of other file formats. With the new digital setup box, I have configured the Pioneer-recorder to recognize the Starhub box, the two devices can be synchronized to record different channels simultaneously and a whole multitude of timer recordings can be programmed into either setup-box for recording.
Well. A whole lotta good that's gonna do when my family ain't as savvy to mess around with all those software settings and on-screen menus. But AT LEAST we have a hard drive-DVD recorder and gone are the dinosaur-VHS days...
Okay, I estimate the home-entertainment system is lacking by the mainstream market by a few years.
We don't have blu-ray, neither do we have a Full-HD 60-inch plasma or LCD TV, no VIIV-compatible Microsoft HDTV computer, neither do we have a fully-integrated network-linked home-entertainment computer with live-movie streaming.
But I don't care. I don't even watch TV anyway.
"Inspired by light... The new Samsung 6-series... Will make you wonder... is it art? Or television..?"
This is good enough.
I can't say the same for my PCs anyway.
Now, those are never enough.
I want my dual-QuadCore QX9775s on a Skulltrail with 8GB of ECC-buffered ram and Triple SLi-ed Geforce GTX280s!!!
Am I even speaking english here?
