Time to resurrect this zombie thread for an update.
I was on the other side of town a few months ago to pick up a Biden lawn sign from the local Dem person. On the way home, I spied a big black chest of drawers sitting on the street at the curb. The usual place for pickup. Since I happened to be in my '67 Chevy Van, I pulled over and popped that sucker into the cargo bay.
Got it home ok. It sat in the carport for a few months, but finally I moved it into the house a couple weeks ago. It will hold all my recorded to disc DVD's and then some. Yay. I've deliberated moving all the assorted recorded air-to DVD's into it until it get some dividers made. But, recently, I realized there really is no need to wait for that; I can start loading it up and reduce some of the clutter in family room and elsewhere. I was going to use plexiglass for the dividers, but I realized that I could even use cardboard and it would be just fine too. Or no dividers at all. We'll see.
Next comment; I'm liking the Samsung 50" flat panel more and more. It's still sitting on its stand on a big coffee table in the living room. This is actually good in some ways; I can watch it from a closer distance w/o my cheaters. But eventually the Vizio will come down from the wall and the Samsung will go in its place.
The Samsung remote isn't bad at all. And it has some neat features. The other night I was able to watch, for free, "A Fish Called Wanda" from the "Samsung TV Plus" menu. There was a commercial about every 30 min, but it wasn't obtrusive. There were other movies for same, free, but they didn't interest me as much as Wanda.
One downside has been that I've lost the ability to view closed captions on DVD's I record off the air, on the Samsung. I think it has something to do with the loss of a component video connection, which the Vizio had; the Samsung is setup to use HDMI only for input from the DVD recorder. I suppose I could try converting the DVD player's component output to antenna signal, and see if that works. But I'll have to get that converter. And there may be loss of signal quality. It's not a big deal, but I do like having the closed caption option because sometimes, especially with British/PBS shows, the audio isn't always clear.
Last, I want to see if I can get the Samsung up on the wall. I will probably need to recruit a neighbor to help with that. As well as first take down the Vizo and make sure the wall mount will work with the Samsung.
And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
PS-My only gripe about the Samsung remote is that it has no back light capability. You'd think they'd realize that ideal conditions for viewing TV is in a darkened room. Darn!
