Murphy's law strikes again
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rosebeeSo HTB & I finally got all the pieces for our home theater PC.
The tv capture card HTB chose got lots of great reviews. We were a little confused when we got nothing but a really crappy fuzzy picture after everything had been installed. Then we found out that very recently the company that makes the card we got changed brands of tuners that they used on the card, and a BUNCH of other people have had the exact same problems with it that we're having.
We'll probably end up having to ship the card back to the manufacturer and get a new one (one that hopefully will work).
I still think this will be a good thing and I'm looking forward to it all being done. I really didn't think it would be this much trouble to do though. Just luck of the draw I suppose.
I've got the apartment to myself this weekend, as HTB is off on a solo adventure weekend to recharge his batteries.
I've gotten some stuff done, but not quite everything on my list.
As my wedding is now less than 9 months away I decided it was finally time to go purchase my wedding dress. So my mom & I went back to the place where I found the dress I fell in love with several months ago when we first went looking. It turned out my timing couldn't have been better!! The dress I like was on the clearance rack as it was being discontinued by the manufacturer. They only had 1 left, and I lucked out again because the one that they had left was in my size! It's pure white instead of the off-white ivory I was planning on. I could've had the store lady call & see if they still had any in the ivory left. But then I would've had to pay full price ($490). Because the white one was on clearance I totally lucked out and was able get it for only $220!! Plenty of money left for alterations. I'm going to have to have the waist/ribcage area let out a couple inches (it's a bit snug as it is, and I'm not likely to be able to easily drop 10-15 pounds between now and my wedding day). I also have to have the dress shortened at the bottom, and the extra slack taken up at the top of the shoulders. Happily the wedding dress shop lady recommended a good seamstress/tailor for me to try. I figure in January after the holidays I'll give the seamstress a buzz and start the process of getting the dress fitted.
The tv capture card HTB chose got lots of great reviews. We were a little confused when we got nothing but a really crappy fuzzy picture after everything had been installed. Then we found out that very recently the company that makes the card we got changed brands of tuners that they used on the card, and a BUNCH of other people have had the exact same problems with it that we're having.
We'll probably end up having to ship the card back to the manufacturer and get a new one (one that hopefully will work).
I still think this will be a good thing and I'm looking forward to it all being done. I really didn't think it would be this much trouble to do though. Just luck of the draw I suppose.
I've got the apartment to myself this weekend, as HTB is off on a solo adventure weekend to recharge his batteries.
I've gotten some stuff done, but not quite everything on my list.
As my wedding is now less than 9 months away I decided it was finally time to go purchase my wedding dress. So my mom & I went back to the place where I found the dress I fell in love with several months ago when we first went looking. It turned out my timing couldn't have been better!! The dress I like was on the clearance rack as it was being discontinued by the manufacturer. They only had 1 left, and I lucked out again because the one that they had left was in my size! It's pure white instead of the off-white ivory I was planning on. I could've had the store lady call & see if they still had any in the ivory left. But then I would've had to pay full price ($490). Because the white one was on clearance I totally lucked out and was able get it for only $220!! Plenty of money left for alterations. I'm going to have to have the waist/ribcage area let out a couple inches (it's a bit snug as it is, and I'm not likely to be able to easily drop 10-15 pounds between now and my wedding day). I also have to have the dress shortened at the bottom, and the extra slack taken up at the top of the shoulders. Happily the wedding dress shop lady recommended a good seamstress/tailor for me to try. I figure in January after the holidays I'll give the seamstress a buzz and start the process of getting the dress fitted.
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Date: 2006-10-09 08:38 pm (UTC)let's try logging in first this time...
Date: 2006-10-09 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-10 03:30 am (UTC)Some of the upper channels are still fuzzy and not close to regular straight tv at all, but they're all watchable.
Thank you SOOOO much for your advice!!