Turns out you can do research till you are blue in the face but if you are not researching everything, something will go wrong, or everything will go wrong.....
Take one: Our bedroom TV fell off of its stand on Wednesday! Erin caught it mid-fall, but not before it hit the corner of the dresser. The TV was off at the time and the only damage we noticed was a little scuff on the screen, so I decided we could live with it and I ordered a wall mount for the TV to avoid such a catastrophe in the future. Well, Friday came and we got the TV mounted. I turned it on and.....
Well after the broken TV issue, I started in on the task at hand for this Friday which is making the switch to OTA (over the air) Broadcast and ditching cable. All of my TVs were already hooked up and tested, except for our main TV in the Family room, where we do 90% of our TV viewing. I thought this would be straight forward and as easy as hooking the antenna feed into my TiVo and off we would go. Well, I got everything hooked up and started the guided setup on my TiVo only to realize that the tuner built into my TiVo was an analog tuner. (We all remember this from 2009, when all OTA broadcasts went digital) So now I need a Digital to Analog converter to get my TiVo to work. After driving around to 4 stores and not wanting to pay $60.00 for something I could have gotten for free in 2009, I decided to save myself $20 and order it online: Zinwell-ZAT-970A Digital Converter. Note: You only need this if you have an old TV (pre-2007) or you want to route the signal through an A/V receiver or TiVo Series 2 or older.
So, Day 1 is slightly delayed. The converter should be here Wednesday so if all goes well, we will be up and running on Thursday. I have also added a "What I'm Reading" section to the blog on the left-hand margin of the page. That is where I will post what book I am currently reading and some thoughts when I'm finished. Enjoy!
Thanks for reading,
Michael
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