Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!
You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
You are not logged in. If you are already registered, fill in the form below to log in, or follow the "Sign Up" link to register a new account.
You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
Logging in...
Previously on "A question for the women on the forum"
Watching movies is one of my favourite things and I have no shame in saying I want a bigger screen than my 46 inch lcd.
It is one thing sitting down to an evening film on a big screen another to be sitting wired to Jeremy Kyle whilst smoking benny hedhogs and drinking cider all day.
The reason to have a Big high quality TV is so I can watch High quality movies with the family. A big TV & decent sound allows you to immerse yourself in it properly.
50" is just right for our lounge, but if it were 20-30ft then 100" would be right.
Total immersion isn't possible with a flat wall, because we can see slightly behind our heads (190 degrees) in the horizontal plane. So a TV should be curved and, if circular, be twice as wide as your are from it. But HD quality isn't up to TVs that size and they've have to use wider angled TV camera lenses. And some digging will be involved for the vertical plane.
For a flat TV and smaller angles (where the distance to the TV is much bigger than the TV) TVsize = viewingDist * tan(theta/2), where theta is your preferred viewing angle (immersive experience). Even at 90 degrees (less than half our visual field in the horizontal plane) that's a TV as wide as you are from it. Doable - as long as you like sitting close to the TV!
The reason to have a Big high quality TV is so I can watch High quality movies with the family. A big TV & decent sound allows you to immerse yourself in it properly.
50" is just right for our lounge, but if it were 20-30ft then 100" would be right.
I had to give my old 47" TV to my parents when I moved into an apartment that was barely larger than a hamster cage. One of the drawbacks of contracting in areas where property is either thin on the ground or expensive up the ass.
Now I've moved to somewhere a bit more palacial, I can now swing two cats around if I desire, they won't give it back.
Had to buy a new 50" plasma.
Cheap as chips these days, so the chav comment may be right. I paid a quarter of the amount for the 50" as it cost for the 47". The prices have come down lots in the last 3 years or so.
HD is a con though. Many times I watch a blu-ray (rented or bought) and think that is not much better than the DVD upscaled, due to either poor quality master or piss poor transfer by the studio. I'm well aware the first few editions are crap so they can eventually do an 'Ultimate' edition that is how the first edition should have looked. See LOTR Extended Edition quality over theatrical release quality for a prime example. Both are on blu-ray so should be identical apart from the extra footage in the EE edition. The EE version is ~50 quid with the TR version ~15. Con merchants the lot of them.
I agree with that but it is down to the poor quality ‘print’ to HD. I am using full HD home video and the quality knocks spots off any bought or rented HD video.
Monday evening, bike ride or running then dinner.
Tuesday evening, athletics club or rugby club, then dinner.
Wednesday evening, weights training then dinner.
Thursday evening, athletics club or rugby club, then dinner.
Friday evening, weights training then out to dinner in restaurant.
Saturday evening, nothing worth watching on TV.
Sunday;rugby match or athletics meet, then drinkies at the club, then bed.
No need for a big TV.
You're going to be even fatter if you're ever injured and can't maintain that training.
At your age I'd start to cut down on the troughing and training in equal measure.
Buy yourself a decent TV, a PS3 or an XBox and become a lardarse like the rest of us.
For future hints and tips have a look at MFs blog - FatLardyArse.blog.com
Leave a comment: