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September 30, 2005
Movies and Cel-Phones and TV's Oh My!
So, the Big Damn Movie opens today. If you haven't seen Firefly, and you see Serenity, I'd be curious about your reaction. Love it? Hate it? Somewhere in-between? I'll hold off on posting anything involving spoilers for a few days. We've seen it, of course - caught a sneak preview in Seattle a few months back. We've got tickets with some friends for a show tonight. Out of that group four, including Dawnise and I, have seen it, the other three haven't.
Should be interesting.
I mentioned a few days back that I was thinking about a Treo. Been watching ebay, and those blasted things are too expensive. So I figured I'd see what the best deal Cingular could offer me was. Dawnise and I are former AT&T customers. My phone is through work, hers isn't. Figured I'd upgrade her phone - possibly with a new contract - and drop my SIM in it. Done.
Those of you who've traveled out of country with your useless-carrier-locked-bass-ackwards GSM phone recently should immediately see the flaw in my reasoning.
See, to upgrade your phone from AT&T to Cingular, you need a new SIM, 'cause Cingular's phones will only work with Cingular SIMs, and ours are AT&T SIMs.
Bloody US cel companies. What part of the GSM spec did they miss?
Finally, we're still fighting (well, fighting isn't really accurate for reasons I'll go into in a moment) with Vizio over the plasma screen we bought a few months back. It has an image retention problem - when the scene shifts to black, you see the remnants of the previous scene (lettering, bright spots, etc.) ghosted in the background. Their first answer was "that's normal." I called shenanigans. Their second answer was "send us the serial number and your receipt and we'll get back to you." So I did.
That was nearly a month ago.
I wrote them a nasty-gram last night informing them that I'd be calling today and that I expect a prompt, courteous resolution to my issue, or I'll be hauling the TV back to Costco for a refund. This is already my second one - I figure I'll keep swapping them and returning them 'till I either get one that doesn't have this issue, or I exhaust Costco's stock. Either way, Vizio gets to take a bunch of TVs back that can't be sold as new anymore.
If all else fails, I'll look at a 42" from a more reputable manufacturer.
Posted by dberger at September 30, 2005 8:17 AM