{"id":1028,"date":"2006-10-15T23:02:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T06:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2006-10-15T23:02:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T06:02:57","slug":"the-quest-for-a-new-tv-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"The quest for a new TV continues."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy Greg and I went on a quest for a new TV, one to replace my 20th Anniversary Macintosh which has a built-in TV tuner but seems to crash in the middle of TV shows. I decided I wanted another LCD TV, in the 16:9 format (since we&#8217;re supposed to have HDTV forced on us any day now) but only about 15&#8243; so it would fit on my table.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the TV took us to one high-end sound store, three musical instrument stores, and Skyline Hamburgers (as you can tell, I wasn&#8217;t really on a &#8220;mission&#8221;, as it were).<\/p>\n<p>We did finally make it to Best Buy, who showed me a nice Toshiba, but they sent us from the NE part of the city to the western suburbs to find one to actually buy. In the end I didn&#8217;t see any on display in the western suburbs, so I gave up for now. My Mac\/TV only crashed once tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to look for a TV online. It&#8217;s much easier to shop online than date online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy Greg and I went on a quest for a new TV, one to replace my 20th Anniversary Macintosh which has a built-in TV tuner but seems to crash in the middle of TV shows. I decided I wanted another LCD TV, in the 16:9 format (since we&#8217;re supposed to have HDTV forced on us any day now) but only about 15&#8243; so it would fit on my table. Looking for the TV took us to one high-end sound store, three musical instrument stores, and Skyline Hamburgers (as you can tell, I wasn&#8217;t really on a &#8220;mission&#8221;, as it were). We did finally make it to Best Buy, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The quest for a new TV continues.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}