The First Trip Out in Spring & a New TV Purchased

By dinnertime Dot had recovered from her two day trip to London, with the Grandchildren to see Shrek, the Musical, so we decided to go for a run out.

The weather was bright and sunny, and quite fresh, so we first headed for Airton and called in Town End Farm for something to eat.

 

Starters of home made soup were followed by a quiche platter for Dot and a ham and pork pie platter for me. All the food was delicious (as usual) and we were too full to partake of the home made cakes and sweets!

We then took the road to Malham, and over the tops to Arncliffe, stopping on the tops for Ruby to have an exhilerating walk. As you can see from some of the photographs, it was bright and sunny, but there was still a smattering of snow left in the hollows.

We then headed to Arncliffe and the church. The churchyard is well known for its displays of snowdrops at this time of year.

On the way home we called into Currys Electrical Retail Store in Keighley, because for a few months our old faithful CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) Hitachi Television has been in need of upgrading. It wasn't designed to receive a digital signal, so we had subscribed to Virgin Media to get the signal to play through the old set.

Whilst Dot was in London I had done a careful survey of the type of set to upgrade to - Plasma LCD or LED, and overall and LED set won out, giving a clearer more vibrant picture, and having more connections than the equivalent LCD sets.

A consultation of a "Viewing Table" which gave sizes of screens for distance seated from the screen suggested we needed a 40" set as minimum.

I had more or less decided on a Samsung as they seemed to give good value for money, excellent reliability and very good sound and picture quality. The next choice had to be did I get a Digital Ready TV, A full digital TV, a 3D TV, and did I choose one with SMART TV fitted?

Spending almost 2 hours in Curry's yesterday, and discussing all the pros and cons with a very helpful and knowledgable assistant I eventually narrowed my choice down to a Samsung 40" UE40D5520 with 16:9 capability, with full teletext and HD Freeview and SMART TV inbuilt. SMART TV, with the addition of a dongle, gives you most of the apps you can get for a computer.

This is what the beast looks like:-

[Special Note for Hannah - who is used to bargaining! I managed to get a 10% reduction off the price of the HDMI lead, 25% off the original cost of the TV Table, then a further £10 off on top of that. Oh, and I also get free delivery and disposal of the old TV]

So we now look forward to Saturday 10th March when our new arrival should arrive!