Buying TV
Yesterday I bought a flat screen TV. I spent about two and a half hour in the store, with three different salesmen that (as usual) didn’t knew squat about technique…
It is so frustrating when the salesmen pretend to know the answers when they are just guessing. I would prefer it if they could stand up for the fact that they don’t actually know the answer to my question and got someone that did. Instead of giving me false information when I am on the verge of doing a very large purchase.
Anyway, I ended up buying a Samsung in black. Now I have installed it and I am very happy with both the contrast and the colours, even if the sound could be a bit better. But that could be solved later with the right sound system. Actually, I didn’t really want to have a TV to use for watching films or cable, but because I want it for the computer. If I buy a wireless mouse and a wireless key then I don’t have to use the little laptop screen – instead I could do everything on the TV. So now I have plugged the computer to the TV and I am doing all the surfing that way. I decided to throw away my dvd-player and watch all my movies from the computer as well. Fact of the matter is that I haven’t even installed TV. I will probably stop watching the stupid cable. The only thing that I like about that is the poker. Both celebrity poker and just live poker with pro’s is so interesting. That would be my only reason for watching TV.
Apart from that I find it so annoying with all the commercial breaks – it is so ridiculous to watch a movie that has like eleven breaks in it. The commercials aren’t even well made in my opinion, and I never feel the urge to buy anything they try to sell. Also, I am sick of cables, several screens, and all the little machines around everything. The sparser the technique is the better. So I have hidden the cables carefully, hid the computer and taken down all the stuff that was on the wall earlier. Now I am just going to enjoy the only screen that I have, for both movie watching, poker playing, surfing, mailing and all of that. It feels great!