long i've promised my wife a media device in the bathroom so while she's using the jacuzzi she can watch. long have i not finished it, because getting a computer built out was taking too long.

finally, decided yesterday to wall-mount an LCD panel, install an AppleTV and be done. The panel I had tho, had no HDMI, and all HDMI to (VGA, DVI) devices are at least one of expensive, huge (converting receivers), or not reliable enough to drop money on (the monoprice $40 hdmi to vga converter... does it rescale? is there a left-shift issue? shrug)

so i found a refurb LED LCD panel on pcconnection for under $100, and they had the appletv on sale yesterday. boom. smart tv for under $200. if only there were a way to use tivo mrv on it... but otherwise, she should be happy, and our budget will be too.