Well, I've finally entered the digital age of Television. I must say I don't see how I "put up" analog all these years. This weekend Emily and I went out TV hunting. We started out Friday night at some local stores in Oshkosh. Most the sales people there sort of got me up to speed on what I would want in a TV and what I wouldn't want. I really wasn't looking to buy a TV from them especially since they were overpriced, as compared to a larger store like Best Buy or Circuit City. I came to the conclusion that I wanted a TV that was 1080p, I wanted a 42 inch, and I wanted a LCD TV. I've read several things about plasma TVs, such as screen burning and shorter life span which LCD do not have. Of course plasma have a slightly better picture but if the TV is going to die twice as fast, what's the point?

Emily and I did some research when we got home. We narrowed it down to a few different TVs at Best Buy. Ultimately we decided on a Philips 42 inch LCD. The TV met all the standards that we wanted and it had one thing that no other TVs had. Abilight. Yes the lovely back lit feature that as far as I know only Philips offers. What it does is projects the color currently displayed on the TV set on the back wall behind the TV. It even display specific colors that are currently on the TV. It is a really cool effect when all the lights are turned off and makes the TV look really slick. Its definitely gives the TV an edge when your trying to choose between two exact TVs.

The picture quality on the TV is really good as well. Unfortunately we don't have digital cable so we can't enjoy HDTV quite yet but we bought a HDMI cable for our XBOX 360 so all our games are now in HD and we can also play DVDs right out of the box on the 360 in HD. Playing Halo 3 is really beautiful in HD. You can see things that you couldn't see before since the picture is so clear. Also watching movies on the TV seems like a new experience because of the picture quality.

Because our living room has a new TV, our old one got moved to the bedroom and the 19 inch in the bedroom is now mine to play with in my computer room. I hooked the TV up to my NVIDIA GeForce 8500gt and I can use it as an extended desktop. Now I can watch movies on the secondary display while I do other things on my other monitor. I'm currently watching the ABC presidential debates on it on YouTube. (Ugh, Hillary Clinton, who is clearly a cyborg sent from the future)

In other news I'm going to Chicago this week. Wish me luck! I'll try to remember to bring my camera so I can take some pictures and post them on my website.

Also I've added a new feature to my site. You can now change the width of the site to a wide layout, which can be found in the right nav. If you have a wide screen like I do at work, then it is nice to have since it seems so small. How about them Packers everyone?