Happy Birthday To Me!

My wife is awesome.

Last night - well, technically, early this morning shortly after midnight - Annie gave me my birthday present.

It is, (rather, it will be since it's not going to be delivered and installed until the 26th) a 50-inch Panasonic Plasma HDTV! Woo-Hoo!

It's the Panasonic TH-50PX60U (instead of using a series of arbitrary numbers and letters, why can't they just give it a normal name like "UltraScreen" or "HellaKool" or "SuperSized Plasmatic Excercise in Excess"?)

I can't wait to get it! (...and the new HD TiVo unit that Annie also bought! And then a PlayStation 3, and a HD-DVD Player, and then, and then, and then...)

Here are some features and specifications:

• 50-Inch diagonal screen
• 16:9 aspect ratio
• 29 billion displayable colors (that's 'billion' with a 'b')
• 480p/720p/1080i compatible
• 1366x768 native rez
• 10,000:1 contrast ratio
• sd slot
• 2 HDMI inputs
• 3 composite inputs
• 2 component inputs
• 3 S-Video inputs
• 1 optical digital audio output
• approx 48" wide, 33" tall, and only 4" deep
• power to ruin my production levels