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wx n of atl

By wx n of atl,
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Avdave

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Way to go Dave!  When is the winter house warming?  With the super model  indoor swim party and snow outside for all?  SnoJoe used to have those but his security kept turning me away at the gate...you won't have security will you?   Tony

LOL It isnt happening yet Tony. I need to make more money and save. It will happen one day though and y'all are invited up and play in the snow and ski and toss a few cold ones back too. No security at my place :lol:

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Steve,

 Wow, thanks for all of this great calibration info! This is very much appreciated. I went ahead and bought the Samsung 51" for $650. I bought the 4 year Geek Squad protection for $170. Also, they sold me a $40 HDMI wire although the cheapest is $20. I know nothing about that but can always return it if not needed. Was it wise to spend $40 on that? Then again they told me they have wires that cost up to $300!! That makes the $40 seem cheap lol. What happened to the old days of buying a TV and just plugging it in lol? No special wires or calibrations!

 

I buy all my HDMI cables on Amazon for less than $10 a piece.  You can find all different lengths, and I can't tell the difference between those and the ultra-expensive Monster cables.  I'd take it back and buy 4+ cables online if you can wait a few days for them to come in the mail.  But, it's hard to wait once you buy a shiny new toy, so I understand the purchase on the spot too.

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You'll probably never see the difference in the different HDMI cables. 

Congrats!!! Let me know how you like it!

 

1)Steve,

 I like it (very clear with beautiful colors). However, it does seem kind of dark to me. Maybe I'll need to calibrate at some point to make it brighter? If so, I'll follow your recommendations.

 

2) Brick is back as is usual as we get toward WOTY season. Welcome back! It is campaign time for the master campaigner, who should consider a job as Pres. campaign advisor. By the way, I recommend you keep Miley out of the campaigns.

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Any of you Columbia area peeps millionaires? TheOne winning powerball ticket was sold in Lexington ,SC ! It was worth 400,000,000$! :)

It wasn't me :(  

 

What's up peeps? Been a while. Busy summer on the road with my girl Miley twerking it!

Howdy Brick  :)

 

I was up around Tugaloo River (GA/SC Line) and came across this Woolly Worm.

I'll take the worm's interpretation of the upcoming winter  :lol:  

 

The two I've seen around here have been all black   ^_^

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DaculaWeather

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1)Steve,

 I like it (very clear with beautiful colors). However, it does seem kind of dark to me. Maybe I'll need to calibrate at some point to make it brighter? If so, I'll follow your recommendations.

 

Good so far Larry! Those calibration settings came from an individual, not a company that does actual reviews and spends the time with expensive equipment to get them setup correctly, so your mileage may vary. I'll keep searching and see if i can find another calibration for you. Don't be afraid to play with some of the calibration settings for the TV, there is probably an option to return it to default if you get it too far out of whack. If not, just take the time to log your changes in case you would like to go back to a previous setting. 

 

Here's the page where I got my calibration settings:

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-19410_102-561058/samsung-pn60e8000-picture-settings/?tag=posts;msg5316691

 

MOST TV's just have a ballpark calibration, finishing the process to get the optimum picture is worth it for me and will usually make a noticeable difference in the picture. 

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Good so far Larry! Those calibration settings came from an individual, not a company that does actual reviews and spends the time with expensive equipment to get them setup correctly, so your mileage may vary. I'll keep searching and see if i can find another calibration for you. Don't be afraid to play with some of the calibration settings for the TV, there is probably an option to return it to default if you get it too far out of whack. If not, just take the time to log your changes in case you would like to go back to a previous setting. 

 

Here's the page where I got my calibration settings:

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-19410_102-561058/samsung-pn60e8000-picture-settings/?tag=posts;msg5316691

 

MOST TV's just have a ballpark calibration, finishing the process to get the optimum picture is worth it for me and will usually make a noticeable difference in the picture. 

 

Steve,

 I wasn't very clear in my post. I haven't done any calibration. I didn't want to do that so soon. I'm saying that it is dark just watching it with the out of the box settings. In some cases, it is so dark in some scenes of a movie (Les Mis) that I can hardly see anything and it seems way darker than the showroom TV I saw! To make sure it wasn't just my eyes playing tricks on me, I asked a Comcast guy, who had to come by today, about it. He agreed the picture looks nice and clear but it is clearly too dark in at those movie scenes we saw. Do you think this means I may just need to adjust the brightness? You had recommended 47.

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I added a couple of new page over the last few days that I thought I'd share.

 

Two are a collection of thumbnail images for NWS offices around the central US and also the SE US, organized by state. Each image will lead you to the AFD for that location. It makes it pretty easy to find out what's going on elsewhere. This morning I was checking out Wyoming's weather. If you like snow, stop by there this weekend and go above 9K feet and you'll see some! :-)

 

The Central Region NWS has done a great job in standardizing their images, both for content and size, while other regions like the Eastern Region, have no images at all, it was a struggle to find some to use for the NC and SC offices. And it also looks like some states have too many offices, and others not enough! I'll try to add other regions this weekend (if it rains!). 

EDIT: Updated old southeast page and changed it to all the Southern Region offices. 

 

Central US - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_midwest_weather.php

SE US - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_southern_region_weather.php

 

Also added a new Historical Hurricane page - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_nws_hurricane_history.php

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I added a couple of new page over the last few days that I thought I'd share.

Two are a collection of thumbnail images for NWS offices around the central US and also the SE US, organized by state. Each image will lead you to the AFD for that location. It makes it pretty easy to find out what's going on elsewhere. This morning I was checking out Wyoming's weather. If you like snow, stop by there this weekend and go above 9K feet and you'll see some! :-)

The Central Region NWS has done a great job in standardizing their images, both for content and size, while other regions like the Eastern Region, have no images at all, it was a struggle to find some to use for the NC and SC offices. And it also looks like some states have too many offices, and others not enough! I'll try to add other regions this weekend (if it rains!).

Central US - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_midwest_weather.php

SE US - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_southeast_weather.php

Also added a new Historical Hurricane page - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_nws_hurricane_history.php

Great website. Love it.
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I added a couple of new page over the last few days that I thought I'd share.

 

Two are a collection of thumbnail images for NWS offices around the central US and also the SE US, organized by state. Each image will lead you to the AFD for that location. It makes it pretty easy to find out what's going on elsewhere. This morning I was checking out Wyoming's weather. If you like snow, stop by there this weekend and go above 9K feet and you'll see some! :-)

 

The Central Region NWS has done a great job in standardizing their images, both for content and size, while other regions like the Eastern Region, have no images at all, it was a struggle to find some to use for the NC and SC offices. And it also looks like some states have too many offices, and others not enough! I'll try to add other regions this weekend (if it rains!).

 

Central US - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_midwest_weather.php

SE US - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_southeast_weather.php

 

Also added a new Historical Hurricane page - http://www.daculaweather.com/4_nws_hurricane_history.php

Very cool... great job! 

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I'm made an important discovery amongst the Mole's papers, as pertains to winter.  I found the mysterious Rubber Ducky winter weather theory spelled out in picture form.  It's how we get over running events that provide much of our sleet, and snow.  Out of the Pac. up and over, and down with the CAD.

  Also, I saw my first wooly worm the other day, and it was solid white.  Glaciation begins this winter.  It's official.  White worm, rubber ducky wind and current pattern....  It is coming.  I am personally preparing a mammoth skin coat and hat, so I might survive.  Prepare ye all, in your own way, for the day of reckoning!

  This picture depicts land falling Rubber Ducks from a  shipment lost in the middle of the Pacific. Couple this with an all white wooly worm, and you can see what it portends.rubberduck.jpg

 

  And to cap it all, my spiders have started to build badminton nets across wide expanses, from tree to tree, and 10 or 20 feet up.  It has been so dry they are now catching bats, and birds, and flying squirrels for moisture.   And they build them up high so the snow pack won't mar their effectiveness.  It's coming..... it's coming to your town.  T

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