Feeling Wooooooozy (just spent bucks on TV)

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

FWIW, another thread on HDTV discussions.

OK I am reading that thread and now I feel all cold and scared inside. What expensive confusifying horror have I gotten myself into? Component Cable this, s-video that, cable card this, TiVo that, HD-TV-cable-aux Gwaaahhhhh!!! Blah blah Ginger indeed.

All I want is:

To watch HD programming sometimes (TW DVR is the only way to go, methinks, with my current setup).

To play video games in wide screen.

To watch DVD (and later, Blu-Ray perhaps) on a big screen.

I'm not sure how this will all work out considering our current set up is horrifically over-complicated (with 2 DVD players, a TiVo, a VHS player, an amplifier, two speakers, some bizarre sound-board which I have no idea of its functionality, and lots of plugs hooked into another box with a switch, which turns the DVD on occassionally). I cannot for the life of me figure out what Cheddar Boy has done to that... I consider myself relatively intelligent (and I'm able to figure out a computer pretty well) but I cannot for the life of me ever figure out how to turn that system on when I want to. *sigh*

TV comes on Saturday...... oy vey.