Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Welcome to the future

  Welcome to the world of tomorrow. So yeah finally I bought a new TV. We had a fairly nice one that a friend gave me but that then died very promptly after a few months. So gone was the wide screen an in was the generic 21 inch CRT. I'm not a big computer gamer or TV viewer, but watching films and genre shows on it was bad. 21 inch 4:3 makes 18 inch 16:9. Not good.

  So after something like almost 3 years I now have a nice, second hand, Sony Bravia 32 inch. Fucking wow!!! No really. From the top it is the right size for our flat. One recent joke I have heard recently is that if your TV is too big for your room (screen width is viewable from 1.5-4 times the width of the screen), then you are working class and trying to prove a point! So yeah, the TV is the right size. Any bigger and my eyes would be burnt out. Plus, weirdly, the living room now seems bigger. CRTs are fucking bricks! They block so much space.

  So what have we watched on the Monolith? Well just normal TV and DVDs (no blu ray here). So things like PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl, Transformers, Devil May Cry Anime, Charlie Jade, FF7: Advent Children.

  We have loads more visually stunning films to watch, but it's a case of being in the right mood for some films. First things that we have noticed? Basically standard TV and DVDs already look better. Digital TV is pretty decent. And computer games on the xbox and ps2 (oh how old school) look decent. So the real question is, should I get bluray? The TV is only 1080i/720p so bluray may well be wasted on it, and potentially useless unless you have a huge TV for you to even notice (human retina resolution issue).

  Other news. Finishing off my first paper from Warwick. My new parameterization method works, and well, and so this paper is a proof of principle and another paper of mine in a very slim area of computational chemistry. Of course I am hoping to hear about funding, and I am applying for jobs. Roleplay wise I am sorting things out, slowly. 

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