First of all, I fucking HATE these overrated flat-screen TVs. Even wearing my glasses, I think the picture only looks slightly better than a picture tube TV and it doesn't make up for having the worst, stupidest-sounding, tinniest speakers of any device ever built. And they're such disposable appliances that burn out after a few years, I'm already on my second one. I used to have a picture-tube 40-year-old Sony Trinitron TV that's been passed around my family over the decades that only recently died. With much deeper, throatier speakers. And the picture wasn't half-bad for such old technology.
That's why I crave older '80s analogue technology of picture-tubes and video tapes and cassette players: their sheer long-lasting, abuse-taking RELIABILITY! Today's current digital technology only has moderate improvements on the audio/visual front and is so delicate it goes to pieces if you even think about it wrong. I have a stereo tape player/CD-player and the tape-player works fine, the CD-player burnt out years ago. I have a VCR/DVD player and the VCR half works fine and its DVD half burnt out years ago. As I write, you see the reliability pattern? I honestly prefer a slightly more old-fashioned technology if it's a reliable "workhorse" that keeps on going forever without one electronic glitch after another after another that keeps pissing me off. Because I've had cassette and video tapes that work normally after decades. I cannot say that about disks.
You know the practical reason why I'm the only person in the First World without a cell phone? Because the exact topography of the hillside in which my rural cabin is built somehow prevents cell phone reception of any kind and one has to be well away from my house for a cell phone to work in my case......yet my ancient land line is as reliable as always. I guess I'm just a guy who's probably too old-school for his own good, I suppose.
That's why I crave older '80s analogue technology of picture-tubes and video tapes and cassette players: their sheer long-lasting, abuse-taking RELIABILITY! Today's current digital technology only has moderate improvements on the audio/visual front and is so delicate it goes to pieces if you even think about it wrong. I have a stereo tape player/CD-player and the tape-player works fine, the CD-player burnt out years ago. I have a VCR/DVD player and the VCR half works fine and its DVD half burnt out years ago. As I write, you see the reliability pattern? I honestly prefer a slightly more old-fashioned technology if it's a reliable "workhorse" that keeps on going forever without one electronic glitch after another after another that keeps pissing me off. Because I've had cassette and video tapes that work normally after decades. I cannot say that about disks.
You know the practical reason why I'm the only person in the First World without a cell phone? Because the exact topography of the hillside in which my rural cabin is built somehow prevents cell phone reception of any kind and one has to be well away from my house for a cell phone to work in my case......yet my ancient land line is as reliable as always. I guess I'm just a guy who's probably too old-school for his own good, I suppose.
