Beastly tech stuff
Aug 30th, 2009 by elle
You think you have it all covered, but nooooo, beastly tech stuff always requires more!
In this case I’m referring to HDTV. I have a seriously awesome television that my fiancé and I bought earlier this year. We’re really happy with it, though we did spend more than we originally intended, partly because the sales person told us that with this television we wouldn’t need a set top box to be able to tune into free-to-air HDTV channels. We thought this was a good idea, because had we bought the TV we originally were going to buy, and then a set top box, we would be over the amount for the better TV.
Okay so as I said earlier, we have IPTV, so we haven’t bothered yet tuning into the other channels because we get them all via our cable channels. A few days ago our cable went out, it’s something that probably happens about twice a year, and isn’t too much of a bother… usually. So I tried to tune our TV into the HD channels, because that’s what the salesman at the store said I could do. Of course, that’s not the case. The salesperson had completely neglected to mention the fact that I would still need a digital aerial device to actually pick up the channels – the other function of a set-top box – so we then had no channels at all, as we had rearranged the living room thinking we didn’t need to be close to the analogue aerial point any more. I had to pour over technology forums to figure out why I wasn’t picking up those channels, and it was a very annoying discovery! Shortly afterwards our cable came back on so it wasn’t anything to worry about then… but I suppose one day I’ll have to figure all that out. Ah well, not today! 
The pattern for this post is going to be this amazingly beautiful depiction of the Roman God Silvanus. It’s my birthday in a few days, on the 3rd, actually, and for my birthday my fiancé is getting me a set of Lantern Moon Rosewood needles, in just the right size to knit up this wonderful bag, and that’s just what I’ll be doing! I can’t wait!