Quickie vacation post

[thistlechaser]

1) Walmart is everything everyone says it is. I went there for the first time today (my mother loves the place). I had no idea there were that many poor/white trash people in all of California. Very overweight women wearing things three sizes too small. Dirty kids running wild drooling on everything. Just the lowest class people I've ever seen around here, and tons of them -- we went at 11 AM and the place was packed. (My first thought was 'Don't these people work?!', then I laughed at myself.)

2) Sometimes I really hate tech. Since my new TV is HD, I got a new HD cable box so I could watch HD stuff. I've spent six hours so far trying to set up these damned things, and it's still not all working. Forget about the Wii or PS2 or any other pieces, I can't even get the TV/cable box/Tivo working together. Irony that I've gotten all this new crap for the Wii and I'm back to not being able to use it...

3) Apparently my new TV isn't as big as I think it is. My mother saw it and said "Oh, that's small!". Ha ha. I think it's big and still love it. :P

4) I now own a sofa! Big and leather, very soft -- lay down on it and you might never be seen again! Shock and amazement, I've lived alone for well over 10 years and this is the first time I've owned a sofa.

5) MISSING RP! Arg! *twitches* But other than that, vacation is going well.

Comments

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Let me come over the Monday after your Mom leaves and I can try to get your AV hooked up. :) We don't even need to do dinner.

[avocado-love.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait... you've never been to a Walmart before? *boggles*

And yes, everything they say about it is true... and so much more.

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

Have you tried going directly from the dstb to the TV? What kind of cables are you using? (Options are YPbPr aka component, HDMI, or DVI--anything else is SD onry)

I work for my cable company, but we have PVRs, so I don't know squat about TiVO (caps correct?)--however basic theory still applies. Is your TiVO device HD-compliant? If so it should have YPbPr, HDMI, and/or DVI inputs as well as outputs. If it's not HD-compliant you can't daisy-chain it and still get HD. If it is, you can use YPbPr from the dstb to the TiVO, then another set of YPbPr to the TV. (this is an example--I actually prefer HDMI since it does audio and video in one cable, whereas YPbPr is one 3-pronged cable for picture and requires a separate 2-pronged RCA audio for sound).

You should connect your Wii, PS3, 360, &c. in parallel rather than in series. Game consoles cannot make use of any input from a dstb. Just change inputs when you want to game instead of daisy-chaining everything together so that if any one link in the chain fails, the whole thing goes to shit.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

If I could hook it up with my mind, I would have done it for you already...unfortunately I'm still working on that power >.>

Can't say I haven't seen this kind of TV confusion before. Happened last year at my cousins house while they were trying to do the same thing you're working on. My dad was helping them and was determined that he knew what he was doing (he generally does with technology) but long story short it was a good laugh.

[quistie.livejournal.com]

Hey now, going to Walmart is an event! I am sure plenty of people would happily skip work just to go to Walmart. That must be it.

I hate Walmart, but I am probably biased. I think I hate everything that strives to be family-friendly: Disney, Nintendo, etc.

[lokyst.livejournal.com]

New couch? Pics or didn't happen! ;)

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Wal-Mart. -_-; I swear I feel my IQ drop when I walk in. The only reason I had for going was because for a while they were the only place that carried my brand of laundry detergent. Now no one seems to. But at least I don't have to go to there anymore.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Wow, congratulations for never having been in Walmart before.

I used to go occasionally for the few things that nobody else carried, but now I think I haven't been there in a couple of years. Like the previous poster, I feel my IQ drop when I walk through the door.