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Trying to decide which Blue Ray DVD player to get

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Ever since we got our new Samsung Plasma TV I’ve been keeping my eye on sales at local and online electronics stores for a good Blue Ray DVD player.

Does anyone have suggestions to which one might be the best to buy? I guess I’ve sort of been thinking of getting a Samsung Blue Ray so that it will work well with the features that are already built into my new Samsung Plasma flat screen. However there are so many different models and a variety of price ranges to choose from …

I’d like to get the best Blue Ray that’s out there right now .. but at an affordable price. any ideas?

Nokia has a free maps application for their cell phones

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I was reading a fellow bloggers blog yesterday and I learned that Nokia has come out with a new free map service for their cell phones isn’t that great?

It’s called Ovi and as far as I can tell it’s a simple application download. It’s a navigation map application so you can get easy driving or walking instructions.

I checked it out yesterday at maps.nokia.com and it works for most of their cell phones, but naturally, it doesn’t seem to work on my older 2007 Nokia smart phone.

My phone still works great and I got it for free in a marketing promotion … but lately I have been thinking of getting a newer phone so I can take advantage of some of the cool applications like this one.

I think I need a new printer

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I tried to use my printer the other day and I think there’s something wrong with it. It seems like the alignment is all off and naturally it’s running out of ink!

I tried running the alignment feature but it didn’t help so now I’m trying to decide if I should spend money on ink for a machine that might not work properly or if perhaps once it has fresh ink if it will suddenly start working properly again. What do you think?

In the meantime I’ve been looking around online for a printer with features that I like. Our current one is a scanner, copier, fax machine and printer. I’d love to get another one that has all of those features. I don’t fax often, but I’m sure if I got a printer without a fax I’d suddenly need to fax out a signed contract or something.

One printer that caught my eye was the tm-t88iv It’s a thermal printer so it’s way more than I need for my home office, but it sure looks nice. I think I’ll be sticking to traditional models for now.

Any printer suggestions or any idea as to how to solve my printers alignment problem? It’s an HP BTW if that’s important.

You need a degree to set up a home theater system these days!

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I seriously think you need a degree to set up a home theater system! Well … it seems that way anyway!

Yes, you guessed it – my husband and I bought a new home theater system and we spent several hours trying to set it up. It didn’t help that the instruction manual was missing key parts and named items on the receiver that aren’t there!

It’s not the first home theater we’ve installed. Nope … You see back in 2004 when we got our DLP HDTV we also purchased a home theater system for the TV. That time around it took us over a week to get the TV, DVD players (we have two), a 200 CD multiplayer, and the cable HD box set up and attached to the home theater and working properly.

As luck would have it … our first home theater system broke down about two years ago and we didn’t get it fixed nor did we replace it … until now that is. You see our lovely DLP TV seems to be dying (the picture freezes – sounds like and expensive DMD board problem) so two weeks ago we went out and bought a new Plasma TV. Naturally as our luck would have it, the TV isn’t in stock so we’re still waiting for it to arrive.

In the mean time we decided that since we’d gone out and bought this expensive HDTV it’d be a good idea to have a working Home Theater system to go with it. So we purchased a Yamaha receiver, speakers and subwoofer.

Yesterday we decided to start hooking up the new system to the old, and still barely working TV. At least less things to try to figure out once we got the new TV right?

After a few hours we had our old multiplayer CD working – but only the front speakers were working. The TV didn’t produce sound from the home theater system. At that point we decided to pack it in and try again today.

It took a few more hours of work this afternoon, but now the TV, DVD and CD player all work with the home theater. Ta Da! I can’t believe it took that long … it felt like a job! Maybe we can list it on our resumes? LOL

Have you had trouble hooking up a home theater system to an HDTV? How long did it take you to complete?

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