It's the holidays, and for a bit Laura and I discussed not doing individual gifts for each other, but rather buying something big for "us". The best idea we had? A nice, new flat-panel or hd or plasma screen or whatever (I don't know the details of what's what and don't particularly care) tv. In fact, most of the obvious ways in which we could upgrade our "stuff" is in the tv family. We could get a home theater surround-sound deal, that sounds cool. Or an HD or Blu-Ray player (by the way -- come ON Sony -- is there a ration on "e"'s that you had to leave it off of "Blu-Ray"? Did Life Pointe take your "e"?) would look nice in our entertainment center. And of course if we DID get a cool tv, we should really look into ditching the rabbit ears and hooking up cable to be able to enjoy our newest purchase.
WHAT?! You don't have cable?!
Nope. And we're not getting the tv. Do you know why? Not only are they still WAY too expensive for cheapskates such as ourselves, but no matter how great your tv is, there's still nothing on. Hook up more channels? No it just takes longer to realize that . . . there's still nothing on. Get an awesome HD dvd or Blu-Ray player? Movies -- not all of them, but far too many -- still suck.
Hey -- like everybody else, I think that plasma screens have awesome pictures, and I love the newer higher-tech devices that deliver better resolution and more powerful sound and all that. I really do -- I love that stuff enough that every few months I think we should buy some of it. But then I ask myself the next question -- what will I watch on it? Football. That's pretty much it, and even then there's at MOST 2 games a week that I REALLY care about, and I can go out and watch those -- and eat buffalo wings -- for the price of buffalo wings. Hook up cable? Now I'm just watching MORE football games that I don't even really care about rather than doing something more productive (like blogging about watching football). HD dvd's are cool, but no matter how beautifully crisp Glitter looks, it's still the same crap.
So here's my deal -- I wish that everybody who is the "entertainment industry" would just go ahead and leave well enough alone technologically for a while. We'll be fine with our tv's the way they are. Now won't you put some of that creative genius that brought us these fine fancy toys into developing stories and plot-lines and witty dialogue that will be worth watching? THEN, my friends, maybe we'll have a more serious talk about those $800 tv's.
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There is a slight flaw in that plan..the people who make/develop TV's don't direct/publish the crap movies that are played on said Idiot-Boxes.
I've yet to see a movie published by Phillips-Magnavox. Or by Sharp, or Pioneer, or Westinghouse, or RCA(which is in the Phillips-Magnavox camp), or even Panasonic. Plus, the more they develop the cheaper said TV's become. Two years ago LCDs looked horrible and cost thousands of dollars..now they're half that price and have better picture quality than plasmas.
Yeah, I get it Nick -- it's just a not really at all serious thought on labor force resource dispersal in general. My plans just really aren't terribly serious, you see. In other words, I'm the same flippant punk on here as I am in real life!
As always, appreciate the readership and thoughtfulness.
Very good! I completely agree with you.
You should watch Pushing Daisies for witty dialogue. It's a fairly well-written show.
Hey -- thanks for stopping in Daniel. But did you get the part about we don't have cable?
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