tsk tsk tsk...kinky pigs.

Buying HDTVs is confusing especially since both commentators and people often throw marketing jargon and necessities at you that you really don't need. Most important is to see them set up in shop and compare and contrast, most places usually loop the same kind of content over all screens so you can quickly see what is good and what is not for your eye.

I would recommend a Plasma over and LCD, I own an LCD but I watch movies at my buddies place and he has a Viera Plasma that gives a much better picture and it looks less like a PC display which is what I feel with my LCD. Plasmas now offer the same brightness as LCDs, the Viera sits in a living room that has no curtains on the 6th floor in Kuwait. Sunlight has never been a problem. But this is neither here or there, anything you will buy will be good. Unless you buy something called Wansa or Chanachong or Leakwong (Lots of unheard of chinese brands in Kuwait).

Don't bother with Full HD or HD TV Ready, all that means is whether or not you will get 720p or 1080p. Now people will tell you that you MUST have 1080p, but that's really a false economy, as that increase in quality is marginal over increase in price. Almost 90% of HD content right now is 720p, and it's more then enough. P means progressive as in the whole picture is rendered at the same time, essentially.

Don't bother with 120Hz, it's all marketing jargon. It doesn't make that big of a difference unless you watch an ungodly amount of sports. But even then I will bet you hard cash to convince me there is a tangible difference from 10 meters away.

You must ideally look for a combo deal that will get you the TV and a home theater system at the same time, but be sure that the home theater has HDMI out (best TV quality), several RCA red/white audio inputs (connecting other audio) and a Optical In (future proof).

What you are trying to achieve is have all video separately to the TV via HDMI or composite connections and then route all the audio routed to your home theater. This will utilize both systems fully. I hate seeing systems when they have the DVD home theater but the satelliate audio is only from the TV, its just retarded.

For streaming content you should really look into the Xbox 360, mostly because it's idiot proof and every easy to setup. You plug it to your TV, then plug the Ethernet cable and you are pretty much set. If you want to watch Blu-rays you could get a PS3, as it is far cheaper then a standalone Bluray player. But its totally atrocious and much more fiddly feeling then the Xbox 360. Plus your son is bound to love the games on the 360 more then the PS3.

If you download alot of content from the Internet its fairly easy to set up a streaming TV server from a PC to PS3/Xbox360 using Tversity, and its also fairly easy to set up. I have done this several times, however it is also fiddly if something goes wrong and it won't really let you play MKV movies unless you do transcoding to a lower format that can be streamed from PC to TV, as real time conversion is a bitch.

Personally I have a Sony Bravia with the Sony home theater system, I use a Western Digital HD TV player to play all kinds of shit I download. Its a small unit that is really cheap, it plays almost all the current video formats as well as HD Blu-ray rips encoded in X264. You would need a separate USB drive that you hook up content to, but those are cheap and allow you to expand storage however much you want (think 500gb USB drive for family movies, 8Gb flash disk for kinky Cambodian sweat shop porn). It has HDMI, RCA and optical connections. It's only fault is that it doesn't do digital to stereo sound conversions, so you must have a optical in on your sound system to enjoy DTS streams, or your files will just have no sound.

I hope this helped.

Or if you're feeling feeling kinky...

kinky ....

Yet another example of how we girls got it tough! (and how we're often a lil bit kinky, 100 times a day??? ouuuuuuuch)

This is one kinky pair. Mixing food with sex while people watch and videotape it all for the internets. Not to mention interspecies. You gotta applaud a couple that is this comfortable with their sexuality.

@schmawy: I didn't hear any complaining when the strawberry jelly was on your muzzle, you kinky bastard. Now behave yourself, I've got a new rifle to try out, kitty cat...

@blankfist: Gay jokes from blankfist...what a surprise! I hope your movies are more original than your comments, or you'll be back to directing gay midget porn soon enough.

@MycroftHolmez: I'm sure that would be somewhat funny if I had seen some geeky movie. Instead it's uninspired and boring. Like you, mycroft.

@mas8705: the channel envy is plain to see. Rocknroll is for men, videogames are for boys...and fat, ugly mid-30s losers who still live with their mom...looking your way, mas.

@kulpims: your name suddenly came up on the list of potential sacrifices.

@firefly: we Europeans aren't squeemish when it comes to phallic land masses...you damn prude.

@Zifnab: you know all that talk of me being Mr. Peanut was just a trick to get you to suck my salty nuts? Worked perfectly. His dark helmet bobbing forwards and backwards...memories.

@gorgonheap: you succesfully killed your own joke, not to mention what little respect you might still have had here, with that last comment. How can I kill something that is already dead?

@laura: look who the stalker is now...I want you to tear up that restraining order, laura!

@calvados: you did that with your ex-"girlfriend" as well. I've seen the pictures...no room for doubt.

@gwiz665: Give me a challenge! This is a guy who sits in front of his computer all day, drinking cola and jerking off at regular intervals. He probably wears glasses too. His idea of wit is quoting Futurama. Despite being heterosexual, he hangs out in gay bars because no woman will speak to him. His mother makes up stuff about him so her friends won't think Lil' Nicky is as pathetic as he is. All in all, we're all richer people for not knowing this guy in person.

@nibiyabi: My hairy back and busted knuckles are powerful aphrodisiacs. Just ask your grandma.

@thinker247: I was looking forward to ripping you a new one, but then you end up praising my name. Bullet dodged for now...

@Crosswords: I'll make an exception and eat ice cream from your decapitated skull. THEN I'll get romantic with said skull. That knife-wielding raccoon won't be able to help you then.

@alien_concept: I think I prefer you keep sending me nude pictures of yourself instead of stuff like this. I know you crave my attention, but like I told you after those inappropriate phone calls you made: "I don't dig bald chicks or wooden legs". And I know you've tried to better yourself, but honestly; 3 teeth, no matter how white, are still 29 too few. Keep looking, Rae, I'm sure there are some guys in the damaged goods department that might go for you.

@NordlichReiter: ...and I'd do it again. And again. Then I probably wouldn't care anymore.

@my15minutes: your 15 minutes were up 5 minutes after you were born, you uninteresting spellchecker you!

@rougy: who are you, why should I care...and why are you wearing my dirty boxers as a hat?

@dotdude: I hear roast of dotdude is a Creole delicacy...

>> ^volumptuous:
ps: How do I know there's cliques here?
Well, a lot of us reach new stars/crowns etc and never have a "CONGRATS TO ____" thread. We just are rewarded silently and privately by Mr.Sifty, and go about our business.


CONGRATULATIONS VOLUMPTUOUS FOR PUBLICATION OF STARPOINT #68.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Disney-1946-Story-Of-Menstruation

Seriously, If that vid earned you #69 that would just be kinky in a blankfist/kp way.

I mean, the narrator said "sprouting teeth"...

Shees, kinky sex for me these days would be doing it with the hall light on.

dystopianfuturetoday,

there is no reason that all three cannot be married to each other. e.g. the man married to both women, and each woman married to both the other man and other woman. then, you would have 3 marriages between three people. complicated? maybe. but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be illegal.

what if someone meets their soul mate, and they are happily married. something tragic happens and one of them is paralyzed. rather than divorce them and find someone else as some would, the disabled partner, out of their undying love of their partner tells them to remarry. out of his own undying love, he doesn't want to divorce his soul mate so he finds another wife but remains married to his soul mate. the new wife is understanding and not jealous. she had a husband too, but he was wrongly accused of murder and ended up in jail so she can be with him mentally but not physically. for this reason, she stays married to him but takes the new relationship on the urging of her husband in jail. etc. etc.

or theres a man who is married to his wife for 40 years before he realizes hes actually gay. he loves his wife so he doesn't want to divorce her. the wife realizes that she likes two guys at the same time, so they decided look for a third partner to kill two birds with one stone. kinky as hell, ya. but why would you want to take that away from them if thats what makes them happy?

or theres a couple who is infertile. they want to have a baby together more than anything. one of their close friends is a single mother. the mother goes on vacation for a year and they babysit the kid. they grow attached and ask the mother to raise it together. all three love the baby deeply, and all three decide to be its parents under one house to help it get the best life it can. they were already good friends and physically attracted to each other, and eventually fall in love. the married couple eventually proposes to the single mother.

theres a million ways it could make sense. i'm not into it just like i'm not into gay marriage but i would die before i oppress someone and tell them who to marry and who not to marry.

Genius... and by gaD, Dag does look like that.

I see some kinky role play in Persephone's future.

There are cases when a tazer will do nothing to an attacker.

The attack has excessive amounts of clothing on... is inebriated, or is pain dead. Pain dead being something like pain part of the brain doesn't work right.

As I spent time in a private security organization, there were good guys and bad guys. But every one was looking for the chance to use the tools they gave us.

I have never drawn any of my weapons on any one ever, any one who advocates the use of weapons and violence is inherently working against their own mission.

Violence begets violence no matter how righteous it may be.

On a tangent:
Weapons were created to make it easier to kill. Can't do it barehanded then don't do it at all.

On a side note... Trish Status took that tazing very well. I like that, kinky dreams commence.

Kinky, cybernetic ponies has always been a good thing. Congrats, fish-and-chips!

^Chat Noir.

It was late at night in a seedy sift talk post when she walked in. Like a tall bowl of milk on a hot summers day, but a bowl of milk that only made you thirstier as you consumed it. 'Isobel', she said with a sly twitch of whiskers when I asked her name, "spelled with an O instead of an A." 'Oh' I said..... lamely.

I knew I should get out of their immediately. At 5 years old, she was nearly 10 times my senior and you don't even want to know how many 'cat years' that added up to. She was smart and worldly. She'd eat me alive, like so many table scraps on a Monday morning.

"Frankie Spade", I said "Private Dick." A very private dick to be exact. Had I been named Frankie Spayed, it would have been closer to the truth. Fortunately for me, she'd had the operation too.....

As it turned out, the iPod headphones that she so loved to play with had all gone missing at the same time, and she suspicioned that the job was done by one of her two shady humans. But why? Why would a human do something so terrible? That must certainly understand our attachment to those precious thin wires and how good they feel on our teeth when we bit them. So after a moments pause, I decided to follow her home, and no sooner had we entered her beach apartment, then she had pushed me to the floor. We wrestled and chased each other for hours. She was a kinky one; she liked to use her teeth and claws....

Congrats! I must have missed the post.. I don't read the Sifttalk as often as I should =(

Hubby was mentioning that we need a 'Crime' channel after I posted an arsonist video.

I have though of 'Oceans' or something water related.. 'Watersports' sounds too kinky though (geez, the Internet took my innocense.. the things I have seen, not willingly, lol =) )

I wish we could have an 'idiots' channels, but I think that's the 'wtf' and 'eia' combined. Medical, as mentioned, would be needed, also the 'green' channel..

I'd love to have a 'baking' channel, but I don't think you'd want to create it =) 'Coffee', or 'Drink' would be good, suggested to me.. I think I am going to create 'Europe (or European)' or '90's' channel.. or not, I really have hard time deciding.

I would also LOVE to have a 'hunks' channel but I don't think it is going to happen. 'Celebrities' or 'Gossip' is also out there =)

How about a 'Fire' channel, seeing so many flammable things.. =)

Again, congrats, and I hope lots of good channel ideas pop up!