Comments on: Money burning a hole in my pocket http://www.rarsh.com/2006/12/28/money-burning-a-hole-in-my-pocket/ Semi-retired. Semi-lucid. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:37:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Lyle http://www.rarsh.com/2006/12/28/money-burning-a-hole-in-my-pocket/#comment-916 Lyle Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:21:35 +0000 http://www.rarsh.com/2006/12/28/money-burning-a-hole-in-my-pocket/#comment-916 I can wholeheartedly recommend Warehouse Express - no matter where I'm living, they've deivered next-day, and the prices have always been more than reasonable. <em>Lionel: Oh, the prices are very, very tempting, Lyle. Thanks for the recommendation, though.</em> I can wholeheartedly recommend Warehouse Express - no matter where I’m living, they’ve deivered next-day, and the prices have always been more than reasonable.

Lionel: Oh, the prices are very, very tempting, Lyle. Thanks for the recommendation, though.

]]> By: Wuglums http://www.rarsh.com/2006/12/28/money-burning-a-hole-in-my-pocket/#comment-894 Wuglums Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:34:29 +0000 http://www.rarsh.com/2006/12/28/money-burning-a-hole-in-my-pocket/#comment-894 Option 1: Has a weak justification -- but is probably the only way to truly see how fonts would be rendered under Safari. There should be other ways to get close which don't require Mac OS. Better justified if you are going to jump ship. Option 2: Can't say I've been impressed by anything other than the HD demonstrations. All "normal" content I've seen has IMO been inferior to regular CRT, blurred footballers etc. -- and frankly surprising that they display this in the shops expecting to sell. (When I went into the local Richer Sounds almost all screens were displaying computer animated cartoons - which looked OK on the smaller ones.) A neighbour has a big Panasonic one, which did look impressive showing BBC's recent "Fear of Fanny" which was filmed in HD. When there's sod all worth watching -- and this week has been spectacularly bad (Freeview included) -- it makes spending money on a gogglebox seem particularly wasteful. <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">The Register</a> has recently updated their guide to <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/08/hd_tv_uk_guide_updated/" rel="nofollow">HD TV in the UK</a>, which is a useful hype-free reference. Replacing perfectly good existing equipment is also not supported by the green lobby. Option 3: Looks the best to me. My ignorance of advances in the manufacture of optical equipment leads me to suggest that - unlike the Mac and TV - you may not see as great a depreciation in its value. Good for creative activity. Have fun choosing. How about some asbestos pocket lining? :-) <em>Lionel: Asbestos is dangerous - hadn't you heard? :-D I am, indeed, leaning towards Option 3.</em> Option 1: Has a weak justification — but is probably the only way to truly see how fonts would be rendered under Safari. There should be other ways to get close which don’t require Mac OS. Better justified if you are going to jump ship.

Option 2: Can’t say I’ve been impressed by anything other than the HD demonstrations. All “normal” content I’ve seen has IMO been inferior to regular CRT, blurred footballers etc. — and frankly surprising that they display this in the shops expecting to sell. (When I went into the local Richer Sounds almost all screens were displaying computer animated cartoons - which looked OK on the smaller ones.) A neighbour has a big Panasonic one, which did look impressive showing BBC’s recent “Fear of Fanny” which was filmed in HD. When there’s sod all worth watching — and this week has been spectacularly bad (Freeview included) — it makes spending money on a gogglebox seem particularly wasteful. The Register has recently updated their guide to HD TV in the UK, which is a useful hype-free reference. Replacing perfectly good existing equipment is also not supported by the green lobby.

Option 3: Looks the best to me. My ignorance of advances in the manufacture of optical equipment leads me to suggest that - unlike the Mac and TV - you may not see as great a depreciation in its value. Good for creative activity.

Have fun choosing.

How about some asbestos pocket lining? :-)

Lionel: Asbestos is dangerous - hadn’t you heard? :-D I am, indeed, leaning towards Option 3.

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]]> By: Tall Andy http://www.rarsh.com/2006/12/28/money-burning-a-hole-in-my-pocket/#comment-882 Tall Andy Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:24:57 +0000 http://www.rarsh.com/2006/12/28/money-burning-a-hole-in-my-pocket/#comment-882 With my wireless connection back up and running I can post again! I would go for the errrr TV if you want to totally destroy my hearing ability again. Also I want to see how you will collect it in your rarshmobile-compact! That Mac does look good as well though - not much help really am I. With my wireless connection back up and running I can post again! I would go for the errrr TV if you want to totally destroy my hearing ability again. Also I want to see how you will collect it in your rarshmobile-compact! That Mac does look good as well though - not much help really am I.

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