Yesterday I went to Nagahama to pick up a 32 inch LCD HD TV and surround sound system. A JET teacher who is leaving this year was selling trying to sell them before he went home. If was thinking of buying an HD TV this month anyway so when I saw he was selling his I jumped. After a tiny bit of haggling I got him down to 75,000 yen (about $750) for the set. A deal by any one's standards. I checked a Japanese used electronics specialty website and the cheapest they were offering the same TV for was 100,000. The speakers are 400 bucks new so all toll I got it for just a bit over half price. Probably half if you consider sales tax as well. Monty Hall would be proud.
Setup was a breeze, but I haven't got around to setting up the speakers. Playstation games look fantastic as do sports broadcasts. Can't wait to watch the Olympics on it.
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Surround sound setup can be a pain in the ass. My parents did ours wrong, so you can really only hear one or two speakers in the room and it ends up sounding like a noise coming from our backyard.
Apparently the one I have is supposed to be pretty simple. There is no reciever to worry about so you just basically gotta place and wire the speakers. Still haven't touched it yet though, so we'll see how easy it turns out this weekend.
I set up the speakers yesterday and they're working beatifully. It wasn't too hard but now the area behind my tv is a complete jungle of wires.
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