Sometimes when I change the channel from one of the SD channels to an HD channel the sound cuts out for a few seconds while signal adjusts.
Sometimes it cuts out and doesn’t come back after a few seconds, necessitating that I either switch back to an SD channel and then back to the HD channel again, or just turn everything off and back on again.
Earlier tonight the sound went out completely on both SD and HD.
As I’d seen the episode of The Simpsons that was on at the time – an episode which I had, once again, predicted earlier in the day – many times, I decided to just turn it off and do something else.
Later, when I went back to watch some shows I’d recorded, I still had no sound, and when I tried cycling it through the HDMI connections, which also sometimes helps, I lost sound and picture. The TV simply declared that there was no input detected.
At first I thought it was a problem with the cable box, but I ran into the same problem when switching over to the HD-DVD player’s HDMI input.
(As an aside, I should point out that the Toshiba HD-DVD player that Wal-Mart was selling for $99 for a limited time on Friday was a low-end, discontinued model and not the higher-end one that I bought a few weeks ago, which made me feel slightly less suicidal about having paid $300 more for the one I have.)
This was distressing, and my reaction to it was very nearly similar to this:
(This commercial cracks me up every time.)
Eventually, after a lot of swearing, I cycled the TV through all of the input options, and when I hit the DVR’s HDMI input, everything went back to normal.
Still, that the problem occurs at all is bothersome, and I’m not sure what’s causing it.
Today was fairly uneventful, with a few notable exceptions, such as the fact that I finally got my first taker on my free Heroic Portrait offer (Thanks to Brian for making the referral).
So I spent much of the afternoon working on that.
Other than that I applied for a couple of jobs.
One, a writing job at a university, has a salary range that starts at around $40,000 less per year than what I had been making at AOL.
The other, a NOC manager position, has a salary range that starts at around $40,000 more per year than what I had been making at AOL.
In terms of what I would like to do, the lower-paying job was the most interesting, but at the moment money is far more important to me than any touchy-feely personal fulfillment crap, so I’d be more inclined towards the NOC manager job.
However, after I applied for the NOC manager job, I actually scrolled down and read the requirements and found that I pretty much meet none of them.
Oh well.
There were a couple of others that I applied for as well, but those two were the most noteworthy.
I forgot to mention in any of my earlier posts that I still didn’t get to see the end of that damned Alien Abduction movie, even though the DVR had recorded the full 90 minutes.
This time around I think the problem was a discrepancy between when the guide said it ended and when it actually ended, so just as it got to within a couple of minutes away from the end, the recording stopped.
I’m not too concerned, though, as it was a crappy movie and I’d already gotten to see the protagonist naked (which was my primary interest in it in the first place), and I at least learned what the shocking plot twist was, so missing the last few minutes is no loss. Given what I learned about the plot, I’m pretty sure I can guess how it actually ended.
In any case, I suppose I should bring this Threshold entry –
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