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dolariI forgot my lunch AGAIN. ::kicks refridgerator::
Today was not a good Jenn day. I had another 10 hour sleep and when it came time to get up, I literally had no energy for moving. It was a wierd feeling where I could feel muscle fibres in arms as I pushed myself off the bed.
I was kind of trancelike most of the day, and very nauseated. Just really out of it. I tried to chalk it up to not eating, and had a good (and unhealthy) dinner about 11PM, but then I just got tired, slothy and more nauseated.
I FINALLY pulled myself out of the sloth at about 3AM after overdosing on Not-Diet Coke, but the nauseated feeling never went away. So now I was slothy, and awake. :)
Still am... :P
I finally got around to running by the PO Box to pick up the Star Wars DVDs, and the Suzanne Vega DVD I had ordered almost THREE MONTHs AGO...
...for some reason, Amazon.com had two listings for "Retrospective, Deluxe Sound and Vision." Which is a best of CD set, but also a DVD set of videos. So I ordered back in June, and waited and waited and waited, shile Amazon kept pushing the delivery date back and back and back. A week ago, I gave up, and started looking for other places that might still have it.
Lo and behold, I found a link back to Amazon.com...but it's a completely different link, $20 cheaper, and Shipped out in 3 days. But it's the EXACT same item. So I bought it, and literally, that evening it shipped.
So now I have a BUNCH of Suzanne Vega videos which means - more realistic pics of Carrie playing guitar! WOOOO!!!! (Hope you don't mind, Nikki :D )
Wow, Luka is so VERY VERY VERY 80s.
I haven't sat downto watch the actual Star Wars DVDs yet, but I browsed the special disk. Holy cow, if you don't look too close at the Gaming Menu, you'd swear those folks moving around inthe Falcon's hold are REAL. (What gave it away? Han "floats" down the hall)
I'll see them tomorrow while I work on the comics. Then we'll see if the changes are worth the Big Whining that these discs are getting.
Oh, and what are they playing on? On that HDTV I was gonna send back. I changed my mind. The VGA plug on the thing still tints blue, but I forgot I also have an S-Video port on my computer AND the HDTV. Plug it in, and while the computer desktop is a bit blurrier, the colors are perfect. Pop the TV Card image over there, and it's GORGEOUS.
It still has the smudge...but as long as you're not looking at a stationary white screen, it's not noticable. The only reason I noticed it to begin with was that my Hanna/Abaddon background is so white.
So I'm gonna keep it. Besides, I'd spend my entire refund on just shipping the damned thing back.
Today was not a good Jenn day. I had another 10 hour sleep and when it came time to get up, I literally had no energy for moving. It was a wierd feeling where I could feel muscle fibres in arms as I pushed myself off the bed.
I was kind of trancelike most of the day, and very nauseated. Just really out of it. I tried to chalk it up to not eating, and had a good (and unhealthy) dinner about 11PM, but then I just got tired, slothy and more nauseated.
I FINALLY pulled myself out of the sloth at about 3AM after overdosing on Not-Diet Coke, but the nauseated feeling never went away. So now I was slothy, and awake. :)
Still am... :P
I finally got around to running by the PO Box to pick up the Star Wars DVDs, and the Suzanne Vega DVD I had ordered almost THREE MONTHs AGO...
...for some reason, Amazon.com had two listings for "Retrospective, Deluxe Sound and Vision." Which is a best of CD set, but also a DVD set of videos. So I ordered back in June, and waited and waited and waited, shile Amazon kept pushing the delivery date back and back and back. A week ago, I gave up, and started looking for other places that might still have it.
Lo and behold, I found a link back to Amazon.com...but it's a completely different link, $20 cheaper, and Shipped out in 3 days. But it's the EXACT same item. So I bought it, and literally, that evening it shipped.
So now I have a BUNCH of Suzanne Vega videos which means - more realistic pics of Carrie playing guitar! WOOOO!!!! (Hope you don't mind, Nikki :D )
Wow, Luka is so VERY VERY VERY 80s.
I haven't sat downto watch the actual Star Wars DVDs yet, but I browsed the special disk. Holy cow, if you don't look too close at the Gaming Menu, you'd swear those folks moving around inthe Falcon's hold are REAL. (What gave it away? Han "floats" down the hall)
I'll see them tomorrow while I work on the comics. Then we'll see if the changes are worth the Big Whining that these discs are getting.
Oh, and what are they playing on? On that HDTV I was gonna send back. I changed my mind. The VGA plug on the thing still tints blue, but I forgot I also have an S-Video port on my computer AND the HDTV. Plug it in, and while the computer desktop is a bit blurrier, the colors are perfect. Pop the TV Card image over there, and it's GORGEOUS.
It still has the smudge...but as long as you're not looking at a stationary white screen, it's not noticable. The only reason I noticed it to begin with was that my Hanna/Abaddon background is so white.
So I'm gonna keep it. Besides, I'd spend my entire refund on just shipping the damned thing back.
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Date: 2004-09-24 08:47 am (UTC)This is a HTDV LCD, Plasma, CRT, or Projection model? NTSC doesn't have quite the color depth of "true color" on the PC, so it might be overly optimistic to expect that the VGA connection to look exactly your pc, but the compressed color spectrum when passed through the s-video may actually be what's making it look better to your eyes.
Remember, human eyes suck at seeing blue.
Didn't it have a discolored spot? If it's a CRT, try hovering a magnet(while on) over the spot briefly to see if it changes colors, if it does, then the shadow mask might have been partially magnetized (maybe because of shipping them all together back to back.)
Also CRT's need to be "adjusted" to the geographical location otherwise they are affected by the earths magnetic field, which would cause some slight magnetic discoloration at full brightness(solid white screen example,) that otherwise you probably wouldn't notice. CRT's sold in the USA for example might get discolored slightly if sent to Canada. Screens made in China/South Korea might also as well, as some of the electronics made over there are not quite manufacturered to the same quality as japanese-american models, which is why their price is much lower. Geographic magnetic problems are common, but usually not so severe that people return them (exception usually being 17" CRT monitors that are common with cheap computers.)
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Date: 2004-09-24 07:17 pm (UTC)The spot, though, still bothers me, but this time I called in for warranty service. :D The maufacturer doesn't place a lot of shipping demands on returning items (ALL ITEMS MUST BE RETURNED! SEND NEXT DAY UPS! INSURE THE PACKAGE! AND PAY FOR ALL THIS IF YOU WANT IT RETURNED!)
The VGA S-video blur doesn't bug me anymore...since it's really just an extension where I throw the TV card onto, or the DVD player.