TV

I realized this morning that the giant box that came with my 40 inch LCD TV was sitting at the corner of the living room for about 2 months already. Since I was pretty happy with my purchase, and see no reason of returning it what so ever, I put the box in my car, drove to the dumpster and dumped the box.

There's wasn't anything spectacular about the process, but that sort of reminded me my whole process of purchasing this TV. Just like buying any item that cost more than US$100, I spent a lot of time doing research on it (plus the time my friend spent on researching Samsung LCD TV, so thank you Alex.) I think I brought this device at the right time with the right price, and I am totally happy with it. This TV with the WinTV DVR dongle give me control on my TV viewing experiment in a smart way. I found myself watched a bit more TV, but not way a lot. Time shifting frees me from being a slave of TV schedule (well I never was since previously I solved the problem by totally skipping TV), and TV Guide recording allows me to experiment on shows that didn't know I would enjoy.

Of course, the TV is also a giant monitor my whatever laptop I hook up to it. So glad that I brought a TV instead of getting another computer monitor.