William Chong

If you didn’t know, I’m tellin’ you. We got a new TV! Now this isn’t an open invitation to come take it away in a truck, mind you. It looks huge but don’t be tryin’ to steal it ya hear?

It’s 42″ diagonally, and uses a projector at the back of the TV to give a nice clear HD display. Sony Bravia – stands for Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Appliance (is it still a TV?)

And then you can do things like this:

(Playing a video of “Haruhi” in the background whilst surfing the net. Multiple desktops means I can do my work while entertaining you guys – oh the joys of multi-tasking!)

Some good things about this TV:

• Huge screen size for amount of money. An equivalent LCD-TV would cost $4000, but we snapped this one up for less than half the price.
• Supports my mac.
• It’s a Sony. It’s… like.no.other.
• (what a ridiculous tagline…)

And some cons:

• As with projectors, it has a silk-screen effect where it looks like you’re looking through a silk screen rather than straight at the image.
• Doesn’t let me play C&C on the big screen (though that’s a Mac problem, not the TV)
• With such HD quality it means normal TV looks bad in comparison. It’s gonna push us to get digital TV la…

In other news, Kenny is making a big deal out of climbing a mountain. Yea, whatever. We went up without power bars, walking sticks and with $5 Countdown gloves. Yes it was hard but it was good. Just for memory’s sake.