I just want to take this opportunity to tell everyone that this weekend I finally succumbed to the social pressure and lure of bright shiny things and bought a 42' flat LED-LCD tv. I spent all afternoon yesterday, when I should have been outside enjoying our planet, just transfixed. It's like seeing TV for the first time. I have a big clunky not-flat HDTV, but it's nowhere near as good as this. I guess it's the frame rate that makes it so everything is incredibly sharp such that films and TV look far more like real life than film. I watched How to Train Your Dragon, which just looks amazing and is a damn fine kids movie anyway and Splice, which is a fun creepy sci-fi horror-type film, made much better on my awesome TV. Then I was flipping between the Saints-Steelers (NFL), the World Series, and the MLS playoff first leg between Seattle and LA, which was pretty dull, but on my TV it was like the greatest match ever played.
I can also instantly stream the Netflix films that it has available that way. For Hollywood reasons I don't entirely understand, most new popular films are still only available on DVD, and I don't have a blue ray player. But...
I almost also bought a pS3 while I was at the store, but decided to calm down. That ad for FIFA11 was really making me want one badly. I haven't played video games in a few years because I know that if I get that, I'll never leave the house. But I still think I want it. It would also double as a blue ray player.
This is a dangerous road I'm going down.
I can also instantly stream the Netflix films that it has available that way. For Hollywood reasons I don't entirely understand, most new popular films are still only available on DVD, and I don't have a blue ray player. But...
I almost also bought a pS3 while I was at the store, but decided to calm down. That ad for FIFA11 was really making me want one badly. I haven't played video games in a few years because I know that if I get that, I'll never leave the house. But I still think I want it. It would also double as a blue ray player.
This is a dangerous road I'm going down.
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