Here’s the video about my new home cinema projector and how (or if) it’s worked out for me.
When I bought my refurb model it seemed like a good deal (relatively speaking) at £900 rather than the £1300 of a new one. However currently the new ones are being discounted to £1000, so now I'd probably pay the extra for an unused one. Affiliate links are on YouTube!
In other news...
It’s been quite the week. Unseen to all, a runaway unattended parked car rolled down the hill, crossed the road, proceeded diagonally across the neighbour’s lawn, only to be stopped when it hit a car, my car which was parked 'safely' on my drive. While my car only suffered light damage it's a load of unwanted admin and time to sort it out. This has convinced me that driverless cars are a bad idea.
As for the health stuff, Liver Biopsy 2 (electric boogaloo) unfortunately proved to be another bust. This one had been CT guided to be more accurate and as a result had taken a lot longer.
The health team must have assumed that after a few days of freedom I'd be pining for more hospital appointments and so they sent me (and my liver) to get another MRI on Wednesday. I’m getting so used to these that I briefly nodded off in the tunnel. Although every time they squeeze me into one of these devices I’m reminded of David Banner’s mishap. Nil by mouth made him particularly hangry.
I don’t know what’s next, but I’ve pretty much had it with biopsies now, if the doctors suggest that they'd like another try I’ll likely opt to just take my chances instead, like everyone else who doesn't get weekly medical checks has to.
In amongst all that nonsense, I’ve finally got this video finished. Unfortunately it turned out my wireless mic receiver managed to wobble a fraction loose from the Sony camera MI hot-shoe for some scenes. So if you think the audio isn’t great in places, that’s because the audio isn’t great in places. I must remember to set the mic to also record a local backup in future.
Take care and have a good weekend.
UPDATE: There are now two versions of this video.
The full verbose 38 minute one is embedded and linked above
Alternatively a more matter-of-fact 18-ish minute version can now be found here:
It’s your choice which one to watch (if any), however I’ll only be posting the short version to the Youtube subscriber feed with the long version linked in the video description.
Update 2 - shaved another 15 secs off the short version and made a few fixes to timings in places. Uploaded the new one and swapped the link out.
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