I'm really cheap

Ok some of you who have read my blog over the years know that I'm really cheap, but this one takes the cake.


I've wanted a 24" - 26" LCD tv in my bedroom to replace the monstrous 24" crt tv that I bought for my apartment 7 years ago. But prices have been skyrocketing since the Superbowl, which previously was the best time to buy a tv was after the event. A couple of weeks ago there was a refurbished 20" Soyo Widescreen LCD on sale for $90, I think on geeks.com. This was a complete impulse buy. I didn't really need it but I thought I'd keep it incase one of my other monitors went out I could have a spare. My the picture on my CRT had been slipping south over the years but became really unbearable when I couldn't read the scrolls on new channels. So I went to Frys looking to pick up some home automation equipment and a another HDHomerun when I passed by a Kworld External ATSC/QAM TVBox DVI Edition. I'd owned the previous NTSC Vga Tvbox but gave it away to a co-worker. So I thought I'd give it a try.

I set everything up and it works great. I get Clear qam channels and I can flip to the dvi interface on my computer to watch tv using mythv. Win all around and I save some power in the process.