Yesterday a few of my friends came over to see Brandon and it was great.  Thanks to Ali (who spearheaded the whole thing), Frank, Jenny, Neil, Mike, Ange & Istvan for coming over, the Sun family certainly had an awesome time! =D  LOL I had so much fun that I forgot to take pictures of things, that’s got to be the first.  Maggie told me later that Brandon was fussy earlier in the day but when the guests were over, he certainly performed and was at his cutest.  We ordered pizza from Pizza Pizza and they screwed up our order and the food ended up taking about an hour and a half to get to us (sent the order to the wrong store) but I guess at least it was free. At around 9ish the folks left, it was past Brandon’s bed time anyway.

Time for a new TV

Earlier in the week my old Viewsonic 37″ LCD TV died (yeah I know, I bought it a long time ago when I didn’t have money lol!) which really sucked because I wasn’t looking to replace my TV just yet.  Anyway forced into it, I looked at a bunch of reviews and decided to pick up a LED TV, specifically the LG 42″ LE5300.  It’s suppose to be a good mainstream LED TV and many of the reviews I’ve read said so, so I figure why not.  We then went to a few stores to get some quotes and settled on a deal at Futureshop.  At the store I asked if they could give me a better deal and the sales rep upgraded me to the higher end LG Infinita line (same size) for the same price ($899) so I figure why not let’s do it.

I take the TV home and after lunch I hook everything up. At first everything looks good, the picture is great and the TV is very easy to use but wait a second there’s no audio coming from the TV!  I tested the TV with my PS3 through HDMI, my Wii through its AV connectors and finally video and MP3s on an USB stick and nothing worked.  Pissed, I called Futureshop and the sales person (the only person I could talk to) tells me to bring it in and he can test it, before I do that though I also called LG’s customer service and they were of no help… =(

Grudgingly I pack everything up and haul the TV back to the store and after about 45 minutes of fiddling, they were also not able to get the sound working on the TV.  So now I have a choice, ask for a refund or pick up something else.  His first offer is is giving me a $40 discount on the original model I wanted, lol yeah that’s not going to work.  He then tells me about this 47″ LG LE5400 (which I thought was only a BestBuy product) that they have in the back and I’m intrigued.  I was kind of wary of going with another LG TV but to be fair I’ve had pretty good luck with LG products in the past and the other TVs in the same class (Toshiba, Panasonic and even Sony) were a lot thicker!  I mean what’s the point of buying a LED TV that’s only 1 or 2 CM thinner than an equivalent LCD right…

So I play it cool and tell the sales guy that Maggie is not really interested and she really just wants us to get our money back so we can get something else and he asks me to wait a second.  He then says I can have the 47″ LE5400 for $1050!  Yeah that’s good enough for me because I distinctly remember it selling for $1299 at BB when I was looking up prices earlier. When I get home the first thing I do is set up the TV up and thank god everything works.  In the back of my mind I was wondering if I should have gotten them to test the TV in store but I figure two in a row is next to impossible right?

Now I have a new pretty LG 47″ LED TV and boy I have to say this thing is damn thin, its only around 3cm thick!

Isn’t it sweet? =D  Heh I threw in a picture of Brandon for good measure, yeah he’s not going to sleep tonight easily…