TV2

Continuing on with the theme of my last post, my poor TV tech savvy, has allowed me to be really wowed by seeing a nice picture on a TV set. I’m still not impressed or rich enough to have to have one – and since last week I have also not changed my viewing habits to being someone that watches TV a lot – so I am not worried or compelled yet to go out and buy one.

My first really wow that is a good picture was a few years ago when I spent a summer working out of state. I was invited to a party over someone’s house and they has a large screen HD set in their living room. I think it was the Discovery Channel, with its awesome nature shows, that really got me. It was really apparent to me in seeing some cool nature shots that this technology was a dramatic difference.

The strange thing about being over that house was the people that were having the party were not even close to being the kind of people that should have been spending the kind of money that did on that TV. In fact they were later evicted from their apartment because they could not afford to pay their rent.

I wonder if they got to keep their fancy and expensive TV?

TV

Television technology has gotten so out of hand. I must admit this is not a part of my realm of techno fascination. At least in terms of my knowing and dabbling in knowing what is going on with TV’s. I just plain don’t have the cash to go buy a $1,000 set.

My first weird experience, one that told me that I was out of touch with this technology, was a visit to one of the big box electronics retailers a number of years ago. Just to see what all this stuff was all about (plasma, HD, etc.), I wandered over to the TV section. I was floored. The prices, the number of different kinds and the awesome pictures that were on the screens. Still, I could not believe that this is where things had come to with this technology. I don’t watch to much TV, which is another reason I do not know or care very much about the latest greatest new sets.

With that I could not believe that folks were readily buying TVs that cost many thousands of dollars. Yet apparently there were. Very strange is what I thought then. And I still do think that today.