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No new episodes?

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

Shouldn’t all the good TV shows be back by now? I thought for sure that all the show I normally enjoy watching on Sunday would have returned with new episodes this week.

Desperate Housewives is a rerun, Studio 60 seems to have been off the air for a few weeks now and a lot of other shows are re-running old episodes too.

I think this has been one of the worst television seasons ever. It’s not that there are no good shows on, it’s just that they keep taking excessively long breaks between new episodes.

Is anyone else sick of watching re-runs yet? I’m ready to rebel!





Filed Under: Entertainment, Television Tagged With: desperate housewives, no new episodes, no new shows, reruns, sick of reruns, studio 60

Next time – we’ll have our HDTV flat screen professionally installed

March 21, 2007 by Tricia

hdinstallerslogo1.gif Around this time, back in 2004, we noticed that our 29″ Sony Trinitron TV was having a hard time starting. We’d turn the power on, but the picture would be static, and then blurry until the set had warmed up for 15 to 30 minutes. The problem had actually been going on for a number of months, but it was getting worse.

We looked into getting the TV repaired, but found that we could purchase a comparable TV for about the same price as it would cost us to repair our 10 year old television set. So, we decided to take the plunge and treat ourselves to a HDTV ready television.

After spending a couple of weeks doing research on the various types of HDTV ready television sets we decided to get a Samsung. Well, we went through two RCA’s first, but that’s a whole other story!

The following story is one of the main reasons why I have decided that anyone purchasing a flat panel TV should have it professionally installed rather than using the services of companies like BestBuy or Circuit City or trying to do it on your own. Instead, I’d recommend that you get professional TV installation for commercial or residential locations from HDInstallers.com.

The television set and the home theater system that we’d ordered were delivered to our house about a week after we’d made our order at the store.

Unfortunately for us, the company that we purchased our new television set from didn’t offer an installation service. That’s probably a good thing though because I know a couple of people that have used the services of boxstores for their flat panel TV installation and they weren’t all that happy.

We ended up setting up the television and the home theater ourselves. It was very difficult. We have a vcr, a dvd player, a multi-CD player, and a DVD recorder that all had to be hooked up to the TV and the home theater system. It took us at least two weeks to get everything working properly.

If we had used a professional HD installer, the technician would have discovered several of the problems that plagued us right away. You see, we had a weak cable signal. A professional installer would have discovered that as he or she set up the television, home theater and all of our other electronic equipment and they would have either fixed the problem for us perhaps by installing a booster, or let us know that for a better picture we’d have to have the cable company come out for a service call to fix our weak signal.

Having our flat screen television professionally installed would have also allowed us to use our new television within hours of it’s arrival in our home. Instead, it took us weeks to set everything up ourselves.

We wasted time. We were frustrated. We weren’t happy with our TV because the picture wasn’t as good as we had expected thanks to the weak cable signal – and the last thing that you want when you’ve just spent a few thousand dollars on a new TV is to be unhappy with the picture! We also argued quite a bit as we tried to set up the television ourselves. It just wasn’t the new television experience that we’d been hoping to have.

If only we’d been smart enough to contact a great LCD TV Installation and Plasma TV Installation Service Company we wouldn’t have gone through all of that anger and frustration.

HD Installers are Nation wide LCD and Plasma television installers. They service every major city in the United States. The company provides both residential and commercial LCD and Plasma television installation, as well as home theater, projector and screen installations.

HD Installers will install your LCD or plasma television on the wall or table stand for you, plus, they will also integrate all of your audio and video equipment – including a current or new home theater system so that everything works properly. They’ll even program your universal remote control for you.

If you are thinking about getting an HD Flat screen TV or if you’ve already ordered your new TV you might want to visit HDInstallers.com as their article section is a great resource for installing your big screen lcd or plasma television. The articles discuss things that you should consider if you want to install your HDTV above a fireplace, and what cables you will need when you install your new TV, plus many other things that you may or may not have considered.

If you are simply trying to decide what size tv will be best for the room you plan to put your new LCD or plasma TV in then you should read the HD Installer calculator article.

Honestly, after the experience we had when we purchased our flat screen TV I’m certain that we will have our next flat screen professionally installed. I mean, when you decide to have your flat screen TV installed by HD Installers you are working with professionals with years of experience. Not to mention that they also have a 100% satisfaction guarantee, offer a one year warranty, and are fully insured.

Filed Under: Services, Shopping, Television, Web and Technology Tagged With: articles, audio, cable, Commercial, electronic equipment, flat screen, HD Installers, HDIstallers.com, HDTV, home theater, insured, LCD, PLasma, projection screen, projection TV, residential, speakers, Tech, technician, Television, TV, Video, warranty

A.I and Amazing Race fans?

March 13, 2007 by Tricia

I just wanted to let you know that I have two posts over on Celebrity Scoop that you might enjoy.

If you’re a fan of American Idol – I’m not!!! – read a post that I wrote about the contestants that just got booted off the show. People magazine interviewed them after their lose, so if you want to know what their plans are for the future go take a peek.

I also have a rant about Rob and Amber who were on the Amazing Race for the second time! All they do is reality shows – they have no life.

I think I’m getting sick of reality shows. There are just too many of them, and most of them aren’t all that good. Yeah, I do watch Survivor and I like The Amazing Race, but none of the others really have much appeal.

What I would like to see on television would be a few more good comedies. A lot of the new ones kind of suck too. If laughter is the best medicine I’m not getting my medicine these days.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Recreation, Television Tagged With: A.i., Amazing race, American Idol, celeb, celebrity, celebrity scoop, contestants, Entertainment, reality, reality shows, rob and amber, Television, TV

Will Meridith on Greys Anatomy die?

February 19, 2007 by Tricia

Wasn’t that a great episode of Grey’s Anatomy last Thursday? I can’t wait to see the third part of their little series of episodes.

Ok, so how many of you that watched last weeks show and think that Meridith is going to die? It’s one thing after another on that show isn’t it?

Personally I don’t think she’ll die.

You see I’m a nurse. Beginning with last weeks episode when she fell into the water I had a feeling that she’d end up drowning. However it’s winter time on the show and the water is cold which means that she became hypothermic in the water.

Evidence of this is of course when they were arriving her they first said her body temperature was only 80 F, and then it reached 81 near the end of the show.

I work in the ER. We’ve treated people who’ve drowned or passed out in the cold and seem dead when they are brought in. On those people you sometimes have to do CPR for HOURS until their body warms enough that all of your efforts begin to work (or not). I think the longest we’ve ever done CPR on a drowning victim found in the winter time was about 16 hours. You need a lot of staff to work at resuscitating a patient for that many hours because it’s exhausting work.

I’m sure people watching Greys Anatomy last night were probably wondering why they didn’t warm her fast. I actually wondered why they didn’t have a warm air bubble type blanket (warming blanket) on her like they did on the pregnant woman with the severely damaged face and chest that had just come out of surgery. The warming blanket would help warm Meridith up – but it works slowly. You can’t warm up a person with hypothermia too fast. It has to be gradual.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how they play this out in next weeks show- part three of three.

What do you think will happen?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Health Fitness and Beauty, Nursing, Television Tagged With: CPR, crohns, drama, Emergency, Entertainment, Greys Anatomy, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, hypothermia, hypothermic, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Meridith, Nursing, pain, rescued, resuscitated, resuscitation, TV

They killed Eric Delco?

February 13, 2007 by Tricia

What the heck?

Ok, they didn’t, but I sure thought that they did for the first 5 minutes or so of the show.

Did you guys watch CSI Miami?

It was touch and go for CSI Eric Delco, but I looks like he’s going to make it although it seems he has some brain damage.

Speaking of brain damage … that’s what I don’t get. In the preview for next weeks episode I see that Eric is back. He was standing in a white lab coat over some photographs, and in another scene dressed in street clothes with a serious look on his face.

How could he be back by next weeks show?

My sister had surgery in 2004 and ended up with a hemorrhage in her neck that slowly cut off her oxygen over a matter of hours while the nurses in the hospital ignored her. She eventually went into respiratory arrest after bleeding out twice and that’s when the nurses finally called for help. Duh!

My sister ended up in a coma for 5 days and slowly woke up barely able to talk, or walk or move her hands. She improved greatly but still has a lot of difficulty and deals with memory loss. She has her own business and improved enough to go back to work but it’s much harder for her now.

So how can Delco be back on the show next week? Huh?

Lets get real here.

I know all of the CSI shows have been losing viewers. I guess that’s why they felt they had to scare us into thinking one of the best characters on CSI Miami was going to be killed off … but come on, at least give him a substantial recovery period.

Make it believable!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Recreation, Television Tagged With: acident, actor, brain damage, coma, crime scene, CSI Miami, eric delco, shot, Television

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