sound and vision

well, we managed to fix stemshul’s big screen tv. it just took some perseverance to tweak it properly. we used the thx test screens on the fight club dvd to get an accurate display of colors. in the end, it came down to focusing the red, green, and blue crt tubes so that they all lined up. it still looks like the blue is off a tiny bit, but stemshul doesn’t mind, so i guess it will be ok.
with the tv calibrated, we decided it was time to go to best buy and pick up a 5.1 surround sound receiver. after getting it all set up, we watched tim burton’s batman and jurassic park. batman didn’t have much sound coming from the rear speakers. i’d imagine that is because it was made in 1989 when surround sound was not as widely used as it is today. jurassic park, however, had sound coming out of every orifice. it was very satisfying.