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Last night I bought me a DVD player. Its a Pioneer DV-656A, sporting progressive scan, built-in DTS decoding, and support for DVD-Audio, VideoCD, S-VideoCD, MP3, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R and CD-RW. Sweet. I enjoy movies, and while I have a DVD player in my computer, its just not the same to watch movies while sitting in the computer chairs, instead of curled up on the couch. Also, my big mondo speakers are in the living room, instead of the computer room.

The funny thing is that our TV is a 13” Samsung. It is so old, that to get channels higher than 12, you have to turn the top knob to ‘U’ and then adjust the bottom knob. It doesn’t even have coaxial inputs, it just has little screw terminals, and an adapter for the coax input. It sports the stock rabbit ears (not even ‘upgraded’ rabbit ears). However, DVDs still look pretty good on it. Small, but good. And of course, the progressive scanning feature of the DVD player currently remains unutilized. However, I have an old 17” computer monitor I’ve thought about setting up as a TV, however, I would need an adapter to take the progressive scanning component outputs from the DVD player to the RGBHV the computer monitor expects. I haven’t seen such an adapter for less than about 120$, which is a little more than I want to spend on it right now. Maybe I’ll just buy a cheap used TV or something. Or maybe I’ll just be happy with the 13” TV, because its really not all that bad, and the big speakers make up for the small screen.

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