as it is... so be it: March 2011

It had to happen anyway.

The old trustworthy and excellent Philips 34" CRT tv finally gave up with a sigh.

It had served more than 20 years and survived 2 direct lightning strikes via the aerial.

The picture quality and colour fidelity was totally superb right to the last minutes of its life.

Other than its obscene bulkiness and insane weight, the tv set had everything else, including a built-in Bose subwoofer no less. And it was one of few sets with a dual tuner that lets you view pictue-in-picture, so you can see what's showing on a different channel while watching a main channel. Even more modern sets don't have this feature.

Anyway, it will be given to the Sri Sinar Charity to be recycled or reused. May it serve another purpose well..

And then, we spotted this new model while browsing at Low Yat.

For its screen size, it is very reasonably priced, considering that it's LED and comes with a host of features not found on old models.

It's a Philips (not surprisingly!!) 42" 8000 series LED tv.

Hopefully this set will also serve for a good many years.

Many thanks to Chung who came by last Saturday to help configure its many (and confusing) settings in order to make it very clear and easy to use. He was very impressed with the Ambilight feature... hahahah.