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Locally, people living on a certain street will hold a street wide garage sale. Not everyone who lives on the street will host it, but they tolerated it.
So it a couple of blocks you can hit a couple of dozen garage sales.
I can't resist.
Sometimes I score big. Not this year. 20 inch Dell flat screen monitor? I'll take that for 25 dollars. It was a little pricey but I could tell the owner was having a bad day. Attach cables and power up. Score!
24 inch LG flat screen TV? Antenna and HDMI input? No remote? I'll take that for 5 dollars. I know with some of these TVs you don't need a remote just to turn it on. Plug it in... no action. Hmmm. Check the power adapter... seems flaky. Check it in another outlet... and the TV comes to life! It *talks* to me!
A female voice says, "No signal." Well, yeah... I didn't attach an antenna.
Spooky.
Feeling around the sides and bottom I notice a tiny switch. Push it in... I get a menu! Wiggle the switch around and I get options! I turn down the spooky voice and change the input to HDMI. I attach my Blue Ray player and it works! Score!
I'll probably invest the 10-20 dollars on a 'universal' remote control for it but in the meantime I'm going to haul that puppy into work and attach it to my new Mac Air. I've got the Air attached to a 20 inch Dell monitor (they seem to be real common around here) via a HDMI to DVI adapter. We'll see how that works.
-m
So it a couple of blocks you can hit a couple of dozen garage sales.
I can't resist.
Sometimes I score big. Not this year. 20 inch Dell flat screen monitor? I'll take that for 25 dollars. It was a little pricey but I could tell the owner was having a bad day. Attach cables and power up. Score!
24 inch LG flat screen TV? Antenna and HDMI input? No remote? I'll take that for 5 dollars. I know with some of these TVs you don't need a remote just to turn it on. Plug it in... no action. Hmmm. Check the power adapter... seems flaky. Check it in another outlet... and the TV comes to life! It *talks* to me!
A female voice says, "No signal." Well, yeah... I didn't attach an antenna.
Spooky.
Feeling around the sides and bottom I notice a tiny switch. Push it in... I get a menu! Wiggle the switch around and I get options! I turn down the spooky voice and change the input to HDMI. I attach my Blue Ray player and it works! Score!
I'll probably invest the 10-20 dollars on a 'universal' remote control for it but in the meantime I'm going to haul that puppy into work and attach it to my new Mac Air. I've got the Air attached to a 20 inch Dell monitor (they seem to be real common around here) via a HDMI to DVI adapter. We'll see how that works.
-m
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