New TV and sound system

**slofox** · 11th May 2011, 12:43

In order to ease my pain at having sold my nice big house and replacing it with a tiny hovel, I lashed out and bought a 40inch flat screen TV plus a 5.1 system that would do HD...

Tested it out last night with a DVD - "Avatar"...

Quite impressive really...impressive enough to scare the shit out of the cat a couple of times...

Can't say Sky's HD content was as good though...

**george formby** · 11th May 2011, 12:52

That is a sign of being a Chav. Small house, big telly. The smaller the house, the bigger the telly, the more of a Chav.

**Blackshear** · 11th May 2011, 12:59

Originally Posted by george formby

That is a sign of being a Chav. Small house, big telly. The smaller the house, the bigger the telly, the more of a Chav.

And more likely to get shit for having differing priorities

**slofox** · 11th May 2011, 13:02

Originally Posted by george formby

That is a sign of being a Chav. Small house, big telly. The smaller the house, the bigger the telly, the more of a Chav.

Fancy that. I didn't know that. Ya learn something every day, huh...

**george formby** · 11th May 2011, 13:24

Originally Posted by slofox

Fancy that. I didn't know that. Ya learn something every day, huh...

No offense intended. I'm sure I saw a British skit, well, something British on the telly & they were taking the piss out of the Chav's, along the lines of you know your a Chav when....

I'm hankering after a new telly myself to be truthful.

**p.dath** · 11th May 2011, 13:40

Originally Posted by george formby

That is a sign of being a Chav. Small house, big telly. The smaller the house, the bigger the telly, the more of a Chav.

Or a person who has fallen on harder times ... like slofox.

**Hoon** · 11th May 2011, 13:55

Originally Posted by slofox

Tested it out last night with a DVD - "Avatar"...

Congrats. Yep the sound would've been good but you'd do your setup more justice by watching it on Bluray. Hire out/borrow a PS3 one night and try it out (make sure you are using HDMI and optical cables if poss as s-video or composite cables dumb it down to 20th Century tech).

**slofox** · 11th May 2011, 14:11

Originally Posted by george formby

No offense intended. I'm sure I saw a British skit, well, something British on the telly & they were taking the piss out of the Chav's, along the lines of you know your a Chav when....

I'm hankering after a new telly myself to be truthful.

No offence taken GF - I had to look up "chav" to see what the hell it was! Hadn't heard the term before.

However, according to the wiki definition, I might be a bit old to be a chav...

**slofox** · 11th May 2011, 14:12

Originally Posted by Hoon

Congrats. Yep the sound would've been good but you'd do your setup more justice by watching it on Bluray. Hire out/borrow a PS3 one night and try it out (make sure you are using HDMI and optical cables if poss as s-video or composite cables dumb it down to 20th Century tech).

I resisted the urge to go blueray - budget would only stretch so far. Tempting though...

Besides, with my ancient sensory system I probably wouldn't notice the diff anyway...

Oh and we do have the HDMI and optical cables...

Funny thing - Harvey Norman sell the HDMI cables for around $80. Jaycar sells the same for $11.95. Evidently Jaycar supplies them to HN...according to the dude in the shop anyway.

**shrub** · 11th May 2011, 14:15

When the artist formerly known as wife ran away she left me with 2 preschoolers, and given motorcycling was not easy (the little buggers didn't fit in my pack) I went out and spent a huge amount of money on a kick arse audio system. Tannoy speakers, Plinius amp and Micromega CD player. Just about the best spent money ever, 17 years later I am still enjoying it, although I have upgraded the interconnects, the amp, the speakers and the CD player it still has the same speaker leads so is the same system.

**Maki** · 11th May 2011, 17:37

Thanks, shrub. A good audio system is very entertaining. You might want to try an upgrade to your speakers. Theophany from NZ are excellent.

**sil3nt** · 11th May 2011, 19:37

Originally Posted by slofox

Funny thing - Harvey Norman sell the HDMI cables for around $80. Jaycar sells the same for $11.95. Evidently Jaycar supplies them to HN...according to the dude in the shop anyway.

Yep paying more than $15 for HDMI cables is just stupid. Because they are digital the cable quality doesn't really matter unless you start running it over long distance (stealing your neighbours blu-ray?) feel sorry for those that get sucked into buying them

**Geeen** · 11th May 2011, 19:43

HDMI is a bitch. Different quality cables do make a difference, its mainly in voltage transmission and signal errors. Not a problem under 3m tho.

Slofox, if you want your system calibrated send me a PM.

**hayd3n** · 11th May 2011, 20:58

Originally Posted by Geeen

HDMI is a bitch. Different quality cables do make a difference, its mainly in voltage transmission and signal errors. Not a problem under 3m tho.

Slofox, if you want your system calibrated send me a PM.

really? isint it sending a digital signal which is basically zeros and ones ?/?