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<\/a>Sony KD-34XBR970 in my basement.(Click for more…)<\/center><\/p>\n
Earlier this month I purchased<\/a> and then cancelled the order<\/a> on a reasonably prices (but still $1k) LCD television, which I was going to purchase so that I could give my grandparents my TV.<\/p>\n Well, fast forward to Friday when Danielle and I were visiting with my grandparents (and my parents, and sister, and brother-in-law, and two doggies) at my parents house, and my grandparents were asking what I’d recommend for them to get as a replacement for their television as theirs is dying. I promised them that I would call on either Saturday or Sunday and let them know what I thought would be a good choice, how to purchase it, etc.<\/p>\n When Danielle and I headed into Circuit City<\/a> I happened across the Sony KD-34XBR970, a rather nice 34″ CRT HDTV, which Circuit City had at the very discounted price of US$599. After some thinking and figuring things out, I ended up paying for the TV at the Great Lakes Crossing store and having pickup set up for the store near Lakeside. We also went over to Best Buy, where I was able to purchase a rather nice, and perfectly sized stand for it<\/a> for US$149. Sure, that’s a lot more than I like to spend on a stand, but I actually like how it looks (especially in conjunction with the other stuffs) and it fits the TV very nicely.<\/p>\n I’m also really happy with the image on it. DVDs, even with my eight or nine year old Sony S-550D player, look really great. Hooking it directly to a Comcast cable line picks up a bunch digital channels, including Discovery HD, some HD PBS stuff, HD ‘normal’ TV, and a whole bunch of music stations. The Wii looks great, and I’ll check out some of the other things tomorrow.<\/p>\n Strangely, standard definition TV looks a bit… well… it’s obvious that it’s SDTV. Sort of like watching TV programming expanded to full size on a television monitor. Full 1080i HDTV (yes, this does it) is pretty damn incredible. It’s just really, really nice.<\/p>\n
![rather nice, and perfectly sized stand for it<\/a> for US$149. Sure, that’s a lot more than I like to spend on a stand, but I actually like how it looks (especially in conjunction with the other stuffs) and it fits the TV very nicely.<\/p>\nI’m also really happy with the image on it. DVDs, even with my eight or nine year old Sony S-550D player, look really great. Hooking it directly to a Comcast cable line picks up a bunch digital channels, including Discovery HD, some HD PBS stuff, HD ‘normal’ TV, and a whole bunch of music stations. The Wii looks great, and I’ll check out some of the other things tomorrow.<\/p>\nStrangely, standard definition TV looks a bit… well… it’s obvious that it’s SDTV. Sort of like watching TV programming expanded to full size on a television monitor. Full 1080i HDTV (yes, this does it) is pretty damn incredible. It’s just really, really nice.<\/p>\nSo, I have to say that I’m quite happy with this. I don’t feel iffy about it like I did with the potential LCD purchase, and sitting in my basement it really does look great. The biggest flaws I can find with it are the lack of a CableCARD<\/a> slot and it’s size, but as I’m no longer planning on moving nor wanting cable beyond the basics, neither really matters to me.<\/p>\nIt also still needs to be calibrated, and I need to figure out why there is a faint vertical line running along the left edge of a SD non-zoomed image, but that shouldn’t be a problem. For now I’ll rest. There was already lots of lifting done, with getting the new TV, getting it into the basement, moving the old one out, and all those sorts of things.<\/p>\n(And yes, I know the color on these photos is completely crap. That’s what happens when it’s under GE Reveal off-temperature incandescent bulbs and a bit of correction is added. It’d be really hard to get this all right… Although I should try one day…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony KD-34XBR970 in my basement.(Click for more…) Earlier this month I purchased and then cancelled the order on a reasonably prices (but still $1k) LCD television, which I was going to purchase so that I could give my grandparents my TV. Well, fast forward to Friday when Danielle and I were visiting with my grandparents\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-family","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24567,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/24567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7009-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}