by "Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
Published 01/14/2017 at 10:11
by "Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
Published 01/14/2017 at 10:11
Tags: Shenanigans
STARS: 7
Buying a TV almost as big as my car?
CHECK
We desperately needed a new TV, our 10 year old Emerson was beginning to get failing pixels. Interesting how cheap 4K TVs are. Flight Sim X looks amazeballs on it! <3 Now, just to upgrade our gfx card.
"S65" (granthp)
01/14/2017 at 10:13, STARS: 1
How did you get that to fit. It seems impossible
"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
01/14/2017 at 10:25, STARS: 1
Smart car on the other side of 73rd now - will get a photo. Phone died coming back from getting fresh bagels.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
01/14/2017 at 10:35, STARS: 1
I’ve got a 50" rear-projector. Good thing about trucks is they don’t have a vertical limit to the things you can put in. I’ve got another rear-projector, 42", which is the single largest thing I’ve ever put in the Niva... And I had to unbolt the back seat to make it fit, and there was only one angle it fit through the rear opening, and then it needed pivoted to get it to sit flat. Getting it back out was interesting to say the least.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/14/2017 at 10:46, STARS: 0
Folded down passenger seat, drove with a big box in my face!
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/14/2017 at 10:48, STARS: 1
My phone actually only had 3% when I took my pics lol
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/14/2017 at 10:50, STARS: 0
How heavy was that thing???!?!?!?
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
01/14/2017 at 10:57, STARS: 1
Rear projectors are mostly air inside, just a lamp and some mirrors. The 42" I can pick up and carry myself, it’s only 30lbs or so, it’s just awkward cause it’s so big. The 50" on the other hand has a massive mdf speaker cabinet below it (GREAT built in sound), and weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of 150-200lbs because of it. I can still get it into the truck myself, just picking up one end at a time, and it’s on casters. One of the advantages of a smaller truck.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
01/14/2017 at 11:18, STARS: 1
I enjoy taking my mini to pick up large items. Especially if they are being loaded by a store employee.
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
01/14/2017 at 13:05, STARS: 0
4k is face melting.
May I suggest rewatching all of Planet Earth?
"cluelessk" (cluelessk)
01/14/2017 at 14:43, STARS: 2
In about ‘07 my parents bought me and my brother a 32" Panasonic 720p LCD. It was $700CAD. Now you can get a 4K 52" for $600.
I really want to upgrade to get full use of my One S.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/14/2017 at 16:13, STARS: 0
Oh my...my parents have a 60 inch rear projector at their house, the thing weighs 400 pounds!!
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/14/2017 at 16:16, STARS: 0
Already doing. Like omg everything looks amazing!!! My old TV was only 720p.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/14/2017 at 16:18, STARS: 1
My old 32" 720p Emerson cost me $570 in 2007 from Walmart, the 4K 48" Vizio was only $380 from Best Buy (ugh). Yay, technology!
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
01/14/2017 at 16:32, STARS: 0
Are you sure it’s a rear projector and not a CRT? That’s a pretty heavy empty box, unless it has a massive speaker cabinet than mine.
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
01/14/2017 at 16:45, STARS: 1
I feel like I need surround sound now.
"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
01/14/2017 at 17:35, STARS: 1
4K TVs have been pretty reasonable for a while. We bought a 55" mid-range Samsung for $700-something about 6 months ago.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
01/14/2017 at 19:15, STARS: 0
No idea! It has a massive speaker system and it does have a giant projector bulb in it (plus really bad viewing angles). The bulk of the weight seems to come from the inch thick wood and metal framing??
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
01/14/2017 at 22:17, STARS: 0
Sounds like a very overkill rear projector to me then. My 42 isn’t so bad for viewing angles but the 50 is awful. I’d use the 42 more often except it gets very hot and starts smelling like burnt plastic if I don’t keep a fan pointed at the lamp. They were both free off kijiji though. Lol.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
01/15/2017 at 04:27, STARS: 1
should have strapped it to the roof.
8)
"StalePhish" (stalephish)
01/24/2017 at 13:20, STARS: 0
They just came out with a new Planet Earth II! It aired on BBC but it’s coming out on BluRay/DVD pretty soon. Absolutely brilliant. I liked it even more than Planet Earth the original.
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
01/24/2017 at 14:16, STARS: 0
I know. I was sad when I couldn’t get it in the states.