I'm off work today because my new TV was being delivered. Pathetically, and I'm ashamed to say it, but I had to wait for my man to finish work to get it set up ie lifted onto the shelf in the living room. It was a bit of a battle finding a widescreen TV that fitted on the 44 cm shelf that makes up a vital feature of my pre-Victorian cottage.
I also bought a DVD player yesterday. I now have the TV set up, which took some doing. There's probably as many wires in the below-the-TV cupboard as there is behind the computer. And try as I might, there simply isn't the flexibility to do everything I want to do. I want to be able to have the sky box going straight to the TV and through the video. I want the video to be able to go straight to the TV and receive straight from the aerial. And I want the DVD to do straight to the TV. I shall have to get a SCART lead for that. Plus I need a new SCART lead for the Sky box because the one that Sky supplied is rubbish. It keeps coming out of the back of the skybox, and is cracked. Then I thought the TV wasn't working, and it turns out that it's the SCART connection into the TV. *Sigh*. I really don't like SCARTs. Maybe it's just me, but they seem technologically more ante-diluvian than the parallel ports thatused to come with PCs.
My colleague said yesterday that I would hug my TV when it arrived, then take a photo, but I'm too exhausted even to set up the DVD player. Even though I have a wonderful DVD which my mother got me for Christmas which has been partly played on the computer. Reviews of Otello performed and interview
Mind you, I watched Balamory, which I have never seen before, but I kept saying "Been there!" "Been there"
And Abbado's currently conducting the Berlin PO in Dvorak's New World Symphony. It's like being there. The sound is even better than the picture.
