I didn’t think buying a new TV would really change all that much (besides making my bank account emptier) but over the past week and a half I’ve realized that I’m half wrong.
First, I am now of the opinion that watching non-HD material is painful. I watched a couple movies on my PS2 over the weekend and it was almost too much to bear. While the movies used to look crisp and nice on my old TV, they’re now blurry and ugly on the new television. I don’t know if it’s simply because of the inferior connection I have for it (I have it hooked up via the non-HD S-Video cable) or the fact that I haven’t put time into calibrating it yet but some of these discs just look bad.
I’ve got a plan to rectify this via a PS3 and some Blu-Ray movies but I’m still waiting on my Best Buy gift certificates to come in the mail from my credit card rewards program. Supposedly they mailed out on Valentine’s Day so hopefully they’ll come sometime this week.
Besides that though, there’s the fact that if something is in HD I will consider watching it just because IT’S IN HD. I was kind of sick this past weekend so I was just lounging around on Sunday when I noticed that the Daytona 500 was on.
I’ve never watched an entire racing event (except the one time I went to the Target Grand Prix in Chicago with some free tickets) let alone NASCAR before that. And yet, I sat here watching almost the entire thing. I would switch occasionally between the HD golf on CBS and the HD NHL on NBC but 90% of my time was spent watching the race.
I’d have never even considered watching that race if it weren’t for th HD. The same is true of PBS. I’ve now watched more PBS in the past week and a half than I did in the past 10 years combined. And all because it’s in HD. This stuff is like a drug. A crystal-clear, vibrant drug.
This of course highlights the newfound inadequacy of my non-HD TiVo but hey, we’ll solve that problem eventually. I probably don’t need MORE HD content distracting me from writing updates for the blog right now anyway.
February 19th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
I’m starting to wonder if this blog isn’t an absolute masterpiece of dust drippingly dry humor. It is like dEN makes fulsome look Borscht Belt in comparison.
February 19th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
dEn, you are going to turn into Chandler and Joey in the episode where they got the free porn.
There is no cure for TV addiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 20th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Porn? Where?
I totally understand dEn on this issue. I hooked up my father’s speakers to my stereo last night and I love the noise they make. Now I just need to figure out a kick ass layout and the sexing can begin.
February 20th, 2007 at 7:20 am
The truth is (and has always been) fulsome uses his time and intellect to expand his world view and knowledge while I just try to find more ways to sit around being lazy.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:08 am
As long as by knowledge you mean wasting an hour trying to understand whether or not Alfred Russel Wallace could have been blackmailing Darwin.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:11 am
That is exactly what I meant.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:23 am
Isn’t there some kind of rule wherein the reference to a Friends episode causes the comment thread to combust?
February 21st, 2007 at 7:17 am
Only if we are referring to Jean Claude van Damme crushing walnuts with his but.
I would love to see those blackmail notes, fulsome. “Credit my theories or the puffin gets it!”
February 26th, 2007 at 10:19 am
i’ve been there. you’ll be like this for awhile. many times have i caught myself just looking at bears hunt for trout… because its on discovery hd.
its a drug.
then the worst part is going to, like, a friends house. a friends house WITHOUT HD. its a goddamn nightmare.
enough hd wit. you are awesome.
hugo