I lurve me some big-ass TV
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Look! It barely fits in our TV cabinet!
Goodbye, 10-year-old, 25″ tube TV. Hello, brand new 40″ Samsung LCD HDTV.
It has arrived, and we’re agog. Firstly, because our own personal investment is about $109, the rest of the purchase price (+ tax) being covered by our very generous wedding guests. Secondly because life has just begun again. The colors! The weird 3-D-ishness! The big-ass screen that just barely fits in our TV cabinet!
Now some of you may say 40 inches? That’s not big-ass. Big-ass would be 50, even 62 inches. But big is in the eye of the beholder, right? When you’re used to squinting at the channel guide, or worse, putting on your glasses to read those tiny letters, 60% bigger is big-ass. It’s so big that I actually had to change the channel guide from “enhanced” (aka, you have old eyes so we’ll super-size the text) mode to “standard.” It’s like we got lasik and didn’t even know it. Joel McHale is almost life-sized on this thing. Scrubs is somehow funnier. Laughs are bigger on a big-ass TV.
We hooked up the Wii and the PS3, which hasn’t gotten much use since I won it last summer, and la LA! a whole new universe has opened up to us. A quick trip to Blockbuster for a BlueRay DVD of Bolt, a couple games of Little Big Planet, and our lives are forever changed. Until next Saturday, when Dish Network comes out to install our new HD dual DVR receiver–say it with me FREE UPGRADE–and we start paying just $10 more a month for HD channels on our existing TV package.
We still need to bribe Steve’s brother Jon to come over and set up a computer network and connect the PC we have attached to the TV to our DSL router (my techhy side doesn’t go quite that far) so we can use the big-ass TV as a big-ass monitor, allowing us to stream Netflix on Demand and watch YouTube videos through our TV. I have the feeling our TV addiction is about to take on a whole new level.
It’s a happy day in our household. A happy, happy day.
