The TV Dilemna

I was on a mission to setup our 32" television and hook it up the the satellite cable here and see if I could view any channels. See our television purchaed in the U.S.A. is of the NTSC format and here in Sri Lanka the television and DVD format is PAL. I believe NTSC format is only for North America, well lets go to Wikipedia and find out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC (Korea, Taiwan and Japan as well)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL (Pretty much everywhere else!)

This is why we purchased a dual format (NTSC/PAL) DVD player, only to find out Uruguay had its own version of PAL (PAL-N).

Our entertainment center is not large enough to accommodate a 32" television so I had to sit it on top. I threaded a coax cable through the one of the back panels and down to the VCR (Where the satellite cable is connected). I thought this should be easy, unplug one cable and replace with another only to find out that even the PAL television cables were different:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_connectors (Look at first picture).

It might be a moot point anyway as I might not be able to view any channels. I know in Uruguay when we used DirectTV we were able to watch satellite channels and no local channels, was hoping for the same here.

My next mission is to see if I can buy a PAL to NTSC converter connector, we'll see!

Random 1

First I have to preface this with the commercials on TV here are aired in Spanish so usually I know pretty little about what they are saying.

I noticed a trailer for a show called Random 1, I had no idea what it was about, figured that it was a reality show and that's about it.

So I was watching A&E last night and thought I'd see what it's about, and was I ever glad I did.

What you have are two friends who pick a random person who needs help, usually homelessness and addiction or both and through grassroots philanthropy try to help them if they want help.

They are both tough and gentle on these people. It's a little more in depth than what I can go into, but it's definitely worth watching.

http://www.random1.com/