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I got the HDTV from wall-mart that I was looking at. I tried to purchase on my wal-mart card, but the purchase was denied. Even though I had over $1500 credit on it, it had a $350 credit limit. I went ahead and purchased it on my debit card instead and asked the folks to refund me the extra funds as a check in the mail.

Apparently, I already had HDTV capability on my DVR box. Everything was showing up in black and white with red/purple dots. It took a while to figure out how to switch the box (Explorer 8000HD) from standard mode to HDTV. I had to press INFO+GUIDE to get the settings to show up. The only option displayed was Standard Mode. One time, I did something else for a moment and then looked at the television to see that the settings had changed on its own to HDTV. I quickly grabbed the remote and confirmed that I wanted HDTV. Things worked. I found that later when trying to hook up the DVI cables, my cable box had them blocked, so I stuck with the RGB component cables.
Things show up so much clearer now. Even my DVD player seemed to have HDTV capability since the picture looked so crisp. I doubt it since I only connected it to the television with a normal yellow component cable rather then the RGB component cables known for HDTV. I was able to hook my computer up through S-Video. I tried the DVI with the computer, but apparently my video card treats regular VGA as the primary output. I would hook up VGA to the TV, but I get better resolution on my monitor.

I also picked up a hard drive this past weekend. I reinstalled my operating system. Windows complained that I had activated it one too many times. Interesting, as I had not reinstalled it since I received my computer a few years ago. Calling the toll free number, I was able to chat with a nice woman with an Indian accent. I was able to get in after that and it’s been a constant event of installing, patching, and upgrading software.

I got four new tires for my car and an oil change. It only took four hours and seven hundred dollars. A woman came in asking the people to squeeze her in. She thought that they were putting other people in front of her. I went over to the mall while waiting and picked up a book of over two hundred su doku puzzles. I only got a few puzzles done before I was completely bored.

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