Much has changed in the life of Leif and with that a new site is needed.

Look forward to more ramblings, more gadgets, sharepoint, SQL, & server stuff as well as a new photography section.

Give me maybe… 2-3 days and then we’ll have updates every few days.

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Being in IT is a funny job. I often get told I don’t have the personality of an “IT guy” whatever that means. I don’t know if those words are synonumous with “mouth breathing basement dweller” but I see myself more as the personable sales type than the nerdy tech-monkey that I get to play on TV (in my head). 

Along with this basement dweller persona, you also get a very different attitude. Much like “Nick Burns – Your Company’s Computer Guy” from SNL, the IT guy is usually the gatekeeper of what goes and doesn’t go in an organization. No youtube at work… his fault. No bandwidth for Final Four… his fault. Facebook… his fault, but his terminal will definitly work, for testing of course. 

It’s easy to fall into this trap as well as an admin too. I’ve caught myself doing it several times. On one side we have users who we percieve as troublesome kids that keep putting their fingers in electrical sockets (so tape up all the electrical sockets) and on the other side, we need to progress as organization to be more profitable and effecient. What I’m getting at is our users are sometimes limited by our ourselves, the IT department. 

This realization came to me a few months ago while listening to some podcasts and reading a book called Drive. What I’ve finally come up with is this… I want to work on the cool stuff. The things that challenge me as a professional and as a person. Locking down ports and traffic, checking productivity monitors, and figuring out a way to lock the cookies on the top shelf is not the best, or most fun, use of my time. I want to end everyday asking and answering “yes” to “was I better today than I was yesterday?” To me that means did I empower more people to do more things with IT or was I a hinderence today?

I would actually argue that if you find yourself spending too much time setting up controls, your company is not hiring the right kind of people. A company today needs to be a playground filled with the right kind of kids that are encouraged to explore. Set up the fences (expectations) and let them go. You will be pleasantly surprised to find what they can do when you hire the right people with the right motivators.

I have ran across some difficult software in my life… teaching myself photoshop & SQL, learning autoCAD at a previous job, or even working with the Crestron proprietary automation software for my home. These are all “Elmo Learns to Read” compared to Blackberry’s latest bastard, BES 5.0.

In a world where most every other mobile device manufacturer has adopted activesync, making most admin’s life easier, Blackberry in their infinite wisdom has stuck with their own method of connecting to RIM devices.

Now I know what you’re saying, activesync can’t do what BES can, and you are right. You can’t lock down the camera, you can’t “brick” the device (wipe yes, but brick, no), you can’t scale your own policy to have the phone to do exactly what you need it to do. But for a non-government, non-research corporation like the one I work for, these features are useless. If it’s not easy to use and easy to administer, people aren’t going to use it. It’s no wonder RIM is losing marketshare to both apple and google-enabled phones at a dramatic rate.

So in our environment of 40 users, I have seen RIM devices fall from 15 total users back in 2008 to 5 in 2010 and now 4 as of this week. The majority of our employees favor both Apple and Android devices and from an administration perspective, make my life much easier. With Exchange 2010 I can manage my wireless users and their company data from the Exchange System Manager (ESM) much like we could with BES 4.x. With the move to Win2008 and Exchange 2010 I had to move our BES to the new 5.0 interface. This has been hell to say the least. In what takes 5 minutes to setup an activesync policy it took nearly 14 hours, 4 installs, and several calls to RIM to setup BES 5.0. This is without getting into the usual steps of BESAdmin Policy Permissions as much of that migrated forward from the previous Exchange2003/BES 4.x environment.

By no means am I a fanboy either. I personally use an iPhone 4 but it’s not God’s phone by any means either. I’m impressed the most the latest Android based phones and love the EVO and the Galaxy S. I advocate what is easy for the user to use, reliably works, and can be folded into our network with ease.

At the end of all of it, I have declared our office a non-RIM zone. We will continue to support our few RIM users remaining but we will no longer add any additional or replacement devices until RIM makes their products easier to use from both the user and the administrator side. Goodbye syncing issues, goodbye resending service books, goodbye goofy ‘sendas’ permissions, goodbye having to wipe a device to re-setup enterprise activation, and finally goodbye terrible trackball devices.

Image courtesy of zazzle

In the last 60 days life has gone crazy. Work has taken up almost all of my time which happens occasionally as it’s very ‘peaks and valleys’ at the office. Between punch out and punch in we’ve had my son’s second birthday, I’ve spoke at two conventions (ironically one of them was about Web 2.0 and how important it is to blog regularly), and when possible, spending time at home with my understanding and very patient wife. I’ve lost 29 lbs (partially to dieting but probably more-so to working an insane amount of hours night and day) since September 30th, the lowest I’ve weighed since my junior year in college.

To say things have gotten busy is an understatement. Almost every personal project I have worked on or blogged about here has been put on hold, and for that I do apologize for those who regularly read here. Home theater hasn’t been used in 6 weeks let alone worked on. Crestron home automation project benched. Xbox hasn’t been turned on in almost 2 months.

Projects are getting wrapped up, deadlines are getting met, things are getting finished, and an end is in sight. I worked a 23 hour stint on Wednesday through Thanksgiving morning wiping out a ton of todo’s off my list.

I’m not sure why I’m posting this. Maybe this answers the question of why I’ve been such a recluse, both in person to the few friends and family that I keep close and to the one’s that see me online, on facebook, or across the dozen or so message boards.

I’ve discussed this before but we’re HEAVY Sharepoint users at work as it’s an excellent way to store content that you just can’t find a place for in your other systems. We use Datasheet/lists like crazy to keep up with business that has been closed/not close and what company we wrote the business with, premium, revenue, etc. It’s great because it just functions like a large excel sheet that everyone can access. (funny I used the word access)

An issue I first discussed with MOSS/Sharepoint was the Datasheet view was very dependent upon which version of Office (2003-2010) you had installed. Office 2003 Professional… great. Office 2003 Basic… not so fast sport! The end user is greeted with this lovely message, “The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one of more of the following reasons…”

It turns out that the Professional versions of Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 (the versions with Access) installed a section called “Sharepoint Components” that made Datasheet view actually work correctly. You could do a workaround buy installing any version without Access first and then pop in a copy of Professional and do a custom install and choosing to JUST install the “Sharepoint Components” but not Access. I was evaluating Office 2010 for our staff recently and I didn’t have this option since I did not have any media. It turns out that Microsoft either heard our pleas (none of our staff uses Access so why buy the full version when we just need what comes on Basic/Standard) or gave us something that fixes the issue anyway. You can download and install the “2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components” that will allow Datasheet to work regardless of what version of Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 you have installed. In fact, I’m almost positive that this would work if you didn’t have Office installed at all but I haven’t confirmed if that works or not.

I really hope one day that Microsoft will include the necessary components as an install trigger from MOSS/Sharepoint so when a user tries to view the Datasheet list for the first time, they’re prompted with an option to install the components right then and there.

I recently upgraded our mail server at work from a Windows 2003 box running Exchange 2003 to a 64-bit Windows 2008 box running Exchange 2010. There were some things that were extremely well documented both online and an e-book I bought called Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed but there are a few issues that I think you just needed to “figure out.”

I started this migration with the intention that it was going to be a slow process spanning several weeks. I would migrate something over like Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and finally the mailstore all while waiting a few days after each feature/role was moved looking for any issues that may come up. Microsoft calls this type of migration where the organization has both an Exchange 2003/2007 box and an Exchange 2010 box at the same time “coexistance.”

This was my first time doing an exchange migration in a production environment and I had already ran a small sandbox lab to try to work out the kinks that typically come up during a migration of this size. Our organization, an insurance agency, isn’t huge (~45 mailboxes) but does present some specific issues in that users are pretty much given free roam in regards to email box size. Due to the possibility of an errors & omissions claim (saying we didn’t get an email to change a policy and it never gets done, claim happens, no coverage) it’s difficult to stop sending or receiving email when a user’s email box gets to a certain size. It really is not surprising to have a user with a 8GB email box with 40,000-50,000 emails. I knew this might be an issue in the migration but was glad to see that exchange could natively move these mailboxes with a local move request in the Exchange Management Shell (EMC).

Here are a few other surprises (some good, some bad) that I learned along the way:

• Office Functionality – Our office uses a mix of Office 2003 and Office 2007, but primarily Office 2003 at 90% of the desks. The number one thing that I wish I would have known was that with Office 2003 users get greeted with the occassional error message of “Unknown Error” when deleting several items at repeatedly one after the other (“delete” “delete” “delete”). Other issues were that deleted items would take over a minute to disappear from the inbox, would take over a minute to send and a few other “quirks” in regards to timing with the server. From all the research I had done this occurs because the way outlook connects to Microsoft Exchange significantly from Office 2003 to Office 2007/2010 for users that are “always connected” meaning they’re not in cached mode. Office/Exchange 2003 connected using UDP and polling where as Office/Exchange 2010 started using just async. Office 2007 supports all connection methods across Exchange 2003/2007/2010. Even when the account is setup as always connected, the server only connects with each Outlook 2003 client every 60 seconds by default. This can be changed via registry hack that can be found here.
• Public Folders – Public folders were initially dropped back in Exchange 2007 but were reintroduced with Exchange 2007 SP1. Exchange 2010 came out of the box supporting public folders but the word from Microsoft is that they have a 10 year shelf life left. Users are expected to run a sharepoint site (which we do but not for public contacts) in conjunction with your Exchange environment. Our public data store wasn’t huge by any means but it was absolutely critical to keep the work flow going at each desk. The issue I ran into specifically is that we were using a smart host on our SMTP virtual connector to let our ISP do the reverse DNS for us. When ever you enable public folder replication, where the folders are going to sync up across two servers, our old 2003 server was trying to sync the public folder information through the smart host, not the server that was sitting under it. Simply removing the smart host (and calling our ISP to set reverse DNS) solved the issue for us.
• Default e-mail address policies - This is one of those things that you just think would come over correctly or at least would be defaulted to disabled. Exchange 2010 comes with a default email address policy already setup and enabled. As you move users over their reply email address is going to change to whatever that policy states. We use a first.last@ naming convention and the default policy states firstinitiallastname@ convention. I had this naming convention setup as an alias already for most of our users but 6 slipped through and it took me about a few hours to figure it out. Users were getting new emails but not reply emails because the reply was an address that had not been configured as an email for that user.
• Journaling – We had journaling turned on in our previous exchange environment, where basically all outbound and inbound email get bcc’d to an exchange mailbox that gets backed up monthly to a .pst, but the migration process did not see this and left journaling turned off. You can simply turn it back on by creating a journal rule in EMC found under “Organization Configuration” and “Hub Transport.”
• Calendar Permissions – What a bear this was. None of the existing calendar permissions came over during migration and everything had to be reconfigured. We have two groups, “management” and “users.” Management has ownership permissions for everyone and users have read free/busy for everyone. We had to set this with some simple powershell commands that I found on a blog here. I really should have spent the time to make this into a script but I ended up just running a the same powershell commands over and over with different combination of users and identities.
• Blackberry Enterprise Server - This surprised me the most of all… our BES server continued to work regardless if the user was on the Exchange 2003 or the Exchange 2010 box as long as there is a send connector setup in the organization configuration and hub transport . I really expected BES to stop sending once I moved a user but I can confirm that it works (at least with version 4.x). I still need to install version 5.0 on the new server to fully decommission the old server.
• Faxmaker - We’re heavy fax users as an industry. It drives me nuts. We have a ton of commercial clients and companies that still prefer fax over email so the 2,000 dollars in PCI fax cards will not come over to my new Dell R710 server as the only slots I have are all PCI-e. This is more of a server buying issue and I should have known this going in but the lesson was learned. Surprisingly like blackberry, faxmaker continues to work for all of our users even though they’re not located on the same physical machine as the faxmaker program. I’m really looking for recommendations on a software based fax system that can be used both here and for our users on VPN

Well that’s it for now… I will write some new blogs if I find anything else out that isn’t working well for us or I discover some shortcuts to save time doing tasks. I do want to give a special thanks to entity known as “Vertigo” out on the internets for giving me some support over IM as I bumped into issues. There is no way I could have done this as successfully without his help.

Overall I’m extremely impressed with Exchange 2010 and the EMC and powershell are EXCELLENT tools versus the old Server Manager snap-in we used in Exchange 2003. Good luck with your migration and please post a reply if you ran into any issues during your migration!

…at least according to me.

I don’t know what this particular disorder is classified as but anytime I am in the midst of a project and Tiffany asks, “how long/much longer will this take” my response is always, “20 minutes!” A lie… possibly. But I sleep better at night thinking it’s a misinterpretation of what 20 minutes really means. 20 minutes to me is a vague representation of time. Sure it’s precise, as we’re talking about EXACTLY 20 minutes, but it’s also just long enough that she can get wrapped up into something else and forget entirely about the time limit. It’s also just short enough that she’s most likely to say “ok” without much further thought.

How long to finish my Home Theater that I’ve been working on for 18 months… “20 minutes.”

How long to mow our yard (4/10ths an acre)… “20 more minutes.”

How long am I going to be on an unexpected phone call from one of my execs… “20 minutes.”

Reboot a server… Well, you get the point.

I don’t know if continuing this game is some sub-conscious impulse now or if I just enjoy watching her eye’s roll at my inevitable, unoriginal response. It’s almost become our little joke that I tend to find way funnier. Then again the only thing we ever fight about is the dreaded questions of “what’s for dinner?”

…at least according to me. Morgan you are an asshole

I don’t know what disorder it’s classified as but anytime I am in the midst of a project and Tiffany asks, “how long/much longer will this take” my response is always, “20 minutes!”

How long to finish my Home Theater that I’ve been working on for 18 months… “20 minutes.”

How long to mow our yard (4/10ths an acre)… “20 more minutes.”

How long am I going to be on an unexpected phone call from one of my execs… “20 minutes.”

Reboot a server… Well, you get the point.

I don’t know if continuing this game is some sub-conscious impulse now or if I just enjoy watching her eye’s roll at my inevitable, unoriginal response. It’s almost become our little joke that I tend to find way funnier.

Really what I think it comes down to is a serious case of tunnel vision when it comes to projects. Time, money

OH NO NOT THIS AGAIN!!! Yes, that’s right! I’m spending more time trying to get you to watch movies that, either good or bad, will still rock your face off if you have a great viewing room or killer sound system. Once again the categories are Picture Quality (wooo pretty), Surround Sound, and Subwoofer/LFE. Here’s my top 5 picks this time around for great Home Theater Demo Discs.

Title: Iron Man II
Original Theatrical Release Date: 5/7/2010
Audio Format DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Great For: Picture Quality, Surround Sound, Subwoofer/LFE
What to Demo: Stark Expo opening, Race at Monaco, Iron Man & War Machine attack
My Take: You knew this would be on here! I loved the first movie in my original post of movie demo discs and the sequel does not disappoint. From the opening scenes of Ironman flying through the night sky to a rocking track of AC/DC to the finale with Ironman and War Machine laying waste to the Hammer Bots, this is a disc that will stretch the limits of your system all while being entertaining to watch. Oh, and finally we get a great race scene when Tony Stark meets Whiplash at the Monaco F1 race… this should be played at 11.

Title: Baraka
Original Theatrical Release Date: 09/24/1993
Audio Format DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 96k/24bit
Great For: Picture Quality
What to Demo: The Entire Disc
My Take: After a recommendation from damn near everyone that has read this blog I finally picked up Baraka on Blu-Ray for a first viewing. i can honestly say this is the gold standard for high definition video reproduction. Thanks to an 8k resolution analogue to digital scan of the original 70mm footage which was then later down sampled to 1080p, this documentary comes to life literally on the screen. Obscene resolution can be witnessed as this film journeys across 24 different countries showing everything from the busy streets of New York to the Gangees River in India. There is not a single word of dialogue or narration. Just pure clean imagery set to the most moving music I’ve ever heard. You don’t watch this movie, you experience it. The entire disc is a demo disc. Pick any scene.

Title: Kickass
Original Theatrical Release Date: 04/16/2010
Audio Format DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Great For: Surround Sound, Subwoofer/LFE
What to Demo: Strobe gunfight, closing scene starting with Hit Girl walking into building
My Take: Quite possibly the most appropriately named movie of the year. This Spiderman meets Superbad meets Kill Bill ultra-violent action-comedy has some striking visuals thanks to the continually impressive eye from Director Matthew Vaughn (Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch). We get a great use of color balance (and the Director is color blind), even if slightly over exaggerated, and a wonderful display of contrast in the darkest of scenes. Check out the shootout scene where Kickass and Big Daddy are held hostage to be rescued by Hit Girl (I can’t make this up). This movie is a new favorite of mine and is worthy of several viewings.

Title: Pulse
Original Theatrical Release Date: 8/11/2006
Audio Format Dolby TrueHD
Great For: Surround Sound, Subwoofer/LFE
What to Demo: Server room scene at the end of the movie
My Take: If there was ever to be a brown note this is it. The scene towards the end of the movie when Kristen Bell’s character finally gets to the server room, we are greeted with an LFE “pulse” so low and gut wrenching it actually made me a little queazy at reference volumes. The flick is a typical Dimension Films horror movie so don’t expect The Shining here but if you are a subwoofer guy or just need to find rattles in your room/your house/the neighbors house, Pulse is the way to go.

Sometimes it’s easier to see what this is than to talk about it. Check out this video on youtube of Pulse’s effect on a nearby coffee table. Now you can see why this little clip has been called “the subwoofer killer.”

Title: Pearl Harbor
Original Theatrical Release Date: 5/25/2001
Audio Format DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Great For: Surround Sound, Some Subwoofer/LFE
What to Demo: Attack on Pearl Harbor
My Take: I am filing this under “crappy movies that you should only watch parts of.” you guessed it, the attack on Pearl Harbor scene is a gut wrenching 11 minutes of the Japanese attack that took place back in 1941. Explosions, gunfire, torpedoes and WWII-era dive bombing are all there with an emersive surround sound track. It’s difficult for some to watch to due to the harshness and realness of the attack (especially on a big screen/system) but I really believe it’s one of the better demo movies of the 90′s. Just don’t watch the rest of the movie and you’ll be fine!

Did I forget something? Let me know in the comments and I’ll include your picks in the next volume of “Home Theater Demo Discs.”

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If there is one question I get asked the most from friends, family, readers of this blog, and just people being weird when I’m at the big box electronic store it’s, “Can you recommend me a TV?” The question alone is a double edged sword as it’s sometimes not a request for help or that “I value your opinion” but sometimes more of a “I have something in mind and I want you to confirm it” type of question. Either way, read this and if you still have questions, feel free to comment and I’ll post back with recommendations or additional answers.

There are currently a handful of TV technologies out there so we’ll skim over them quickly:

Plasma Poor plasma… you’ve gotten such a bruised and tattered wrap over the last few years. We still have love for plasma here at the Stuff That Plugs In Blog though so here are a few things to know about plasma. Plasma TV is still the hands down end all be all of TV’s when it comes to picture quality. Even the most expensive LED LCD panels are no match for Plasma’s ability to damn near go total black when needed on the screen (contrast). Image burn-in was a thing of concern but no longer seems to be an issue on modern day plasma televisions. Burn-in was a phenomenon that occurred when an image sat too long in the same spot and left a residual image on the TV. You saw this a lot in airports are the screens hardly cycled so a turned off set or a broken set you could still see an image of what was once displayed. We still have a bit of image retention, meaning the image may stick around for a few minutes after turning off, but I haven’t seen a plasma suffer from image burn-in in quite some time. Plasmas are still not “power hogs” over LCD. The difference in the technologies make that the plasma pulls different wattages depending on what’s being displayed (brighter scenes more power, darker scenes less power) whereas LCD is “always on” and always pulling a constant stream of wattage from the wall.

LCD (and LED) LCD TV has been out just as long as plasma and is the same technology used in most cell phones and computer monitors. It has an image produced on a Liquid Crystal Display and then lit with a cathode-ray tube alone the edges of the screen. While the image is good, it’s not great as darks just cannot get near as dark as plasma since the bulb is always on and when the LCD is showing “black” we’re really getting “kinda dark grey.”

LCD TV just couldn’t stay on par with the image quality of Plasma so manufacturers started to develop LCD backlight LCD TV’s (lit by tiny little lights instead of a bulb on the edges). There are currently two types of LED TV’s out now: Edge Lit and Local Dimming. You want Local Dimming. This means the LED lights are behind the screen in a grid and can turn on, off, or dim as needed to display the most plasma like image as possible. Local Dimming LED sets are not going to be as paper thin as their Edge Lit LED counterparts but seriously… who needs a 3mm TV set (not you).

Rear Projection One of my personal favs in situations where hanging on the wall is not necessary as well as this particular type of TV heads up the “bang for the buck” department. Rear projection is a technology that uses a DLP (psst… it’s in the mirrors) chip to bounce light off of and into a color wheel which then projects the image from behind the screen. Since this process needs some room (to get a big enough picture) these TV’s typically tend to be anywhere from 9-21 inches deep depending on the make/model/size. Bulbs will need to be replaced (a good thing in my mind since you don’t have to throw it away) every 6,000-10,000 hours unless otherwise noted. Most mid-sized DLP TV’s have been phased out as LCD prices came down for the 50″ range but you’ll still find 65, 70, and 80 inch variants still on sale from Mitsubishi and Samsung for nearly a 1/4 or more of what their similar sized LCD or Plasma counterparts sell for. If you want a big screen go Rear Pro… if you want bigger than that, go front projection (like my theater) but that’s another topic.

Tips for buying a TV

• DO read reviews on particular sets from popular sources like cnet or consumer reports
• DO look at your room before looking at TV’s. Rooms with lots of windows or lots of sunshine coming in will be better served with an LCD or a Rear Projection TV instead of plasma due to the glare produced from the screen since plasma screen’s are more reflective. Also look at your room when you’re most likely going to watch TV the most. If it’s relatively dark, look at a Plasma.
• DO buy your cables online from places like monoprice (cables have a 2100% profit for the retailer so they’re going to lie to you about quality differences with their cables…)
• DO shop online to get a competitive price on a TV. Retailers like Amazon are now using third party vendors to allow for competition. Most of time you can get prices from a 100 different vendors through amazon and they’ll show the cheapest price available. (You can visit amazon through this link as they’re a site sponsor)
• DO feel free to return a TV because you don’t like it. A TV should last you easily 7 or more years so this is something you’re going to be living with for quite some time. Do not settle. A bad picture will always be a bad picture.
• DO hang your flat screen on the wall. It’s a quick and easy process that looks super clean and can be done in less than an hour by a novice. Buying a flatscreen and putting it on a console or a tabletop is like buying a Monet and putting it in a closet.
• DO NOT look at TV’s and think… “That has a good picture.” You’re not in an ideal environment, like your living room, to make that kind of judgment since the lighting in a retail store is extremely poor or it’s setup to make them all look good. You also need to know that TV’s come shipped in a settings called “Torch Mode” which is unrealistic color reproduction to make them “look” good (or at least better than the one next to it) on the sales room floor by amping up the brightness and certain color hues. There actually is a standard that all TV’s should be set to but if they did that, they’d all look the same. I wonder why manufacturers wouldn’t want to do that… hrmmm… By the way when you get home with your new TV turn it to “Cinema” mode and off of Torch Mode. Watching in Torch Mode would probably give you a migraine after 30 minutes of viewing due to the brightness.
• DO NOT buy into marketing specs on the TV’s hot sheet. Settings like 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio is impossible (they’re really measuring about 1,200:1 ANSI) to achieve and they’re really using tricks to get to numbers like this just so the consumer sees one set at 500,000:1 and one at 1,000,000:1 and immediately thinks the latter is the better set.
• DO NOT listen to the monkeys at the big box retail stores and what they have to say. They’re trained to not sell you the best TV but to sell you the most profitable TV (sometimes being a house brand that they make twice to triple the profit)
• DO NOT let anyone talk you into the false notion that cables make a difference. Digital cables transmit 1′s and 0′s. It either works or it doesn’t. My entire house uses 4 and 6 dollar HDMI cables from monoprice.com. This has been proven time and time and time again.
• DO NOT buy the biggest TV that you can afford. Buy the TV that fits your room. A TV should be 65″ at 10′ from where you sit according to SMTPE specifications. Any larger and it you’ll be watching a Tennis match every time you turn on the TV as your eyes will scan across the TV. Any smaller and you’ll squint. You can find a calculator here for other distances
• DO NOT buy into the 3D gimmick that’s out right now. The technology has not been finalized and is due to change making your purchase obsolete. Additional glasses range from 100-150 dollars a piece, are easily breakable, lack true content (currently only 5 movies available in 3D) and cannot be used on different TV brands (you can’t take your Samsung glasses to a friend’s house and watch a Panasonic 3D TV)

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