{"id":1551,"date":"2011-01-14T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2011-01-14T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:00:05","slug":"what-was-i-going-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/01\/14\/what-was-i-going-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"What was I going to write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot why I came to the blog to write. \u00a0I know it was important at he moment but before the &#8220;Freak Waves&#8221; program on PBS. \u00a0A container ship got hit by three 100+&#8217; waves within a few seconds in the Atlantic. \u00a0I guess I will not be making a crossing. \u00a0I cannot even imagine such brutish waves in a 35&#8242; sailboat. \u00a0The TV is still on but I have lost interest in what is playing.<\/p>\n<p>I started a search of A\/V Receivers. \u00a0I am on the low end price range and am looking at Denon AVR-391. \u00a0They are selling for $159 as Reconditioned\/Referbished on eCost.com. \u00a0 You can check it out for yourself but it has 4 HDMI 1.4a inputs with 1 HDMI 1.4a output. \u00a0I am focusing on HDMI since almost all players and TV&#8217;s have these inputs. \u00a0Of course, a few\u00a0component, s-video and other I\/O&#8217;s are good things to have too. \u00a0The machine has a limited number of these I\/O&#8217;s. \u00a0There are many things that it does not have as well such as digital to analog outputs and analog REC output. \u00a0It does have one valuable feature my present AVR does not have &#8211; a remote controller &#8211; and, yes, the AVR is that old. \u00a0The Radio Shack unit has been running for 20 years and is never shut off except when we go away.<\/p>\n<p>The TV to go with it will be \u00a047 -55&#8243; with with wireless N connectivity and Apps to allow NetFlix, Blockbuster and other services. \u00a0I am not sure about 3D but it seems reasonable to add it to the list since the HDMI 1.4a supports 3D. \u00a0Moore later&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot why I came to the blog to write. \u00a0I know it was important at he moment but before the &#8220;Freak Waves&#8221; program on PBS. \u00a0A container ship got hit by three 100+&#8217; waves within a few seconds in the Atlantic. \u00a0I guess I will not be making a crossing. \u00a0I cannot even imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}