Monday, February 26, 2007

Daily Report: Anticipation

Had a great day of work today... perfect in the morning, but a little off in the evening.

I'm getting really excited about the prospect of purchasing an HDTV home theater with my tax refund in the next couple of weeks. It was 15 years ago when I was in The Sony Experience in New York City, and my jaw dropped at the site of then-experimental HDTV. Ever since then, my life as a consumer of technology has built up to this point.

This really is finally the right time to buy: First of all, it is only now that true 1080p televisions are being sold, and at reasonable prices as well. And, more importantly, I can now finally actually watch HDTV in Thailand.

No... there aren't any HDTV broadcasts here yet, but Blu Ray DVD is now out, so you can watch high-definition movies that are as good as — if not better than — HDTV. Actually: They don't sell Blu Ray DVD players in Thailand yet, but they do sell Sony Playstation 3 units, which play Blu Ray DVDs, so I'll be buying one of those. (As for getting my hands on the movies, hello Air Mail.)

And, as an added bonus, it is going to absolutely be da bomb playing Gran Turismo 5 on a 60-inch screen at 1920 x 1080 resolution at 60 frames per second.

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