One Problem Normal Diaries Never Have
Yesterday night I typed up this nice, 3 paragraph post (most of which I’ll repeat here), and then click “Publish” and walk away. When I come back about 10 minutes later to look, I see that it hasn’t posted but instead gave a timeout error. I try again, and the same thing happens. Basically, I tried up until midnight but something kept me from being able to access the site, so I couldn’t update last night. That’s the reason there was no post yesterday. If this was a normal paper diary/journal, it would have been quite hard for me to have this issue.
So, to recap from the post lost to cyberspace, my parents are closer to getting an HDTV for their bedroom. When I was doing my research, I wanted to make sure that it would be as “futureproof” as possible. This (to an extent, unfortunately) requires HDCP, a form of copy protection for a lot of new HD content (including HD-DVD and Blu-ray). The one I found and suggested should be fine with 2 each of composite, S-Video, component, and HDMI inputs (the latter having HDCP capabilities). However, this also prompted me to think about our existing HDTV and whether or not it supported HDCP.
We got our other TV back almost 2 years ago before HDMI and HDCP were really taking off in the market place. The TV itself only has one DVI input, and since that can actually come in an analog variety, I wasn’t even sure if our TV had a digital input to even possibly support HDCP. A quick search of the model number indicated that it was a digital DVI port and did in fact support HDCP, so fortunately that won’t be an issue. Number of ports might be on the other hand, since both of the 2 component ports are already in use, so adding any more devices will require the investment in a switch. The DVI port shouldn’t be too big of an issue for the near future, because once we get our Media Center PC, that can be used as a HD-DVD/Blu-ray player instead of getting standalone units.
I missed the UPS guy yesterday, and today was contemplating whether or not to go home in between my two classes and wait for him or not. I ultimately talked myself out of it, but if I had, I would have been there to receive the packages. The current plan is for my mom to go pick them up tomorrow, then I’ll just bring my computer home over the weekend and install the PSU there. Hopefully that fixes all the problems because I’d really rather not have to try and guess how many more parts inside of my computer need to be fixed.