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In other news, now that the Wii has a release date and such I’ve been thinking. Nintendo is optimizing all games for widescreen TVs. If you combine this with other games that already offer that, and many TV shows now being in widescreen… I’ve been thinking of getting a new widescreen TV. And if you are going to buy a new TV right now, you’d be an idiot not to buy an HDTV.
I’ve been thinking of replacing my current TV (a Sony KV-27S66) with a Sony WEGA KD-34XBR970, which is a Consumer Reports best buy. It’s standard CRT because they are a proven technology, they are cheap, and I know it will last. The fact that it is almost 200 pounds and probably about 2+ feet thick is fine with me, considering it costs less than half what an inferior LCD or Plasma would cost. I’d love a projector but those are even more obscenely expensive.
Of course, it would be nice to have HDTV to watch. I’m addicted to my TiVo so I am currently considering switching off of DirecTV and using Comcrud. The channels that annoyed me the most (the local affiliates) would all be HD so they would look good. The other channels I watch look decent and I could easily live with them. Getting an HD package from Comcast is surprisingly cheap. It seems it only costs $5 more to add HD to a package (of course, the packages are all overpriced thanks to their monopoly). Since my TiVo is tied to DirecTV, I’d have to get a new TiVo Series 3
My last comment is simply just how BAD Windows is. I use it at my job, and I forgot just how annoying it can be. But I’ve run into a new problem that I never ran into before because of the changes in the way I work. I often have numerous windows open. Now this never used to be a problem for me because I didn’t have to switch between them much. But now I find myself with 2 or 3 Firefox windows open (one for fun, one to look up stuff, and one for testing), Eclipse, Explorer, Outlook, a MySQL window, and maybe one or two other things.
From all this, it has become instantly clear that the Window management on Windows is horrid. It just isn’t there. One of my coworkers keeps even more windows open than me. He has two monitors which you would think would improve the situation, but it just seems to make it worse. Windows is crying out for something like the Expose feature of OS X. However there are no good implementations out there (because Windows wasn’t designed for something like that) and from what I’ve seen Vista doesn’t improve things (not that I’ll be running that any time soon, if ever). I don’t use Expose on my Mac because I never have enough windows open for command-tab to not work well (I tend to only have one or two windows open at a time). That said, I can see how Expose would save me a ton of time and frustration on Windows.
