My new TV tells me what…damn, I forget what it’s called, if I ever even knew. The number that represents whether you’re getting HD goodness or not. When I hit the ever-so-convenient input selection buttons, it flashes the number in the upper righthand part of the display.

Most stuff seems to be in 480i, but the HD I can find OnDemand tells me it’s 1080i. Yay. I know what I’m seeing, now.

Or, at least I will when I wake up enough to understand half the words I just used, and by then I should be working on getting the damned audio to work exactly how I think it should.

My TV broke on Saturday, which was really quite a shock. I thought that thing was going to outlive me, since it was a CRT.

So I got a new one on Sunday, and FedEx delivered it a day early. So now I’m watching Revenge of the Sith, and enjoying the pretty, pretty picture, while I wait for the rest of what I ordered to show up tomorrow, when everything else was supposed to show up. Cables, newer, spiffier surge protectors. Stuff to make sure that this TV lasts at least as long, because it wasn’t cheap [though it also wasn’t as expensive as the other one].

More later, after I’ve recovered from moving the old TV.

He actually had a real name, too. Don Herbert. I didn’t know that.

I also didn’t know he had a show before Mr. Wizard’s World on Nickelodeon, but he had a fourteen year run on another network back in the 50s, too.
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