Linux has driven me to buy Windows Vista

[James Knott]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>> Mine's in the living room, across from the couch.  One thing about 
>> this set, is it's easy to see who's putting out a crappy signal.  ;-)
>>
>> While I haven't had an HDTV picture on it yet (real soon now), last 
>> night I watched a wide screen DVD, which used a mode of 480P that 
>> displays 16:9 pictures.  Even at that lower resolution, it was quite 
>> impressive.
>>
>> BTW, this is the first TV I've ever had, that came with an RS-232 
>> serial port!
> 
> If I had a living room, I might be keen. In a basement apartment though, 
> so meh, it will have to wait.
> 
> BTW, what the heck is the serial port for?!

You can actually use it as a remote control, though I don`t know what 
you`d use to do that.  I haven`t looked into it fully, but there`s 
apparently a standard wired method for linking various multimedia 
components, so that one can control another.  Perhaps it has something 
to do with that.


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