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Review: Vizio SV370XVT
Today I finally bit the bullet and entered the world of HDTV. I bought a Vizio SV370XVT at Costco. I did my research and decided on Vizio as it had features I wanted and got some decent reviews (some reviews have been mixed). This TV replaces my 7 year old Sony 32". Last week we were at Costco and I had settled on getting the VL370M as that's what they had in 37". This week, they had the newer XVT model which was $120 more, but had TruVolume and a we other features.
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Misinterpretation of Analog vs Digital Cable
I'm a technology person by interest and training, but realized today that I really didn't have a clue about cable TV. I always referred to my basic cable server as analog cable as I don't have a cable box and simply have the coax go right into the TV/TiVo. What didn't help is a quote from my cable company's website:
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It's here!
Snow Leopard arrived today and I quickly installed it on my test machine. After that was done, I setup the test machine for email, VPN, and jabber. Then I was off to installing it on my main machine. I had planned to do a clean install (archive and install), but that option didn't appear to exist. There was probably some magic trick, but I didn't find it.
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Damn you, Quicken
Each time a new operating system comes out, I look at what I no longer need and start trying to clean house. One optional install of Snow Leopard is Rosetta which lets people run PowerPC applications. Why would anyone need this when applications have been Intel native or Universal binaries for years? For me, the loan application that has me installing Rosetta is Quicken. I'm now on Quicken 2007, but it still isn't Intel native. Looks like I have to wait until February or so of some year (maybe next) to get a version of Quicken that runs natively on an architecture (Intel) that has been on the Mac platform for 3.5 years.