DumDog
Posted : 11/12/2007 1:41:55 PM
cat0
Thank you for posting this. I think that any television greater than 40" should spontaneously combust.
I was in the middle of redoing our living room several years ago - restoring the old french doors, pulling the crummy shutters off windows, new furniture -- when a 60" tv appeared. It takes up one end of the room. It blocks the french doors. I can't watch tv without getting car sick unless I flatten myself against the wall at the opposite end of the room. The surround sound system scares the #$@# out of me because he-man likes it loud. I don't even go in there any more, I watch any tv on a very old 20" in the kitchen. Without HD.
Best Buy etc. does not think you are crazy. They are just supporting the man-habit. That's what they're there for.
I never finished the living room.
i wonder if your hubby is related to mine.....
i like the movie theatre experience... but honestly i am a weirdo... i dont LIKE the realistic sounds of jets swooping across the room... or hearing footsteps walking from one end of the living room to the other... it gets me every time with the footsteps... i LIKE being able to tell the fake from the real!! but with the bloody surround sound i feel like a prairie dog peeking over the back of the sofa to make sure someone hasnt just walked in!! last weekend we were watching Fiddler on the Roof... and there was this weird noise that sounded like machine gun shots (popopop!!) it was during a particularly noisy scene... but it SOUNDED like it came from the backyard!! so i had my head out the window making listening for it again, worrying about the dogs or my cat... or someone escaping from the prison and going on a shooting rampage... turned out it was the stupid amplifier... its going out... (GOOD!!!) so while you get tv tech talk .. i get to hear all about the amplifier tech talk... we already got our new giant television a couple years ago. we babysat someones big screen while they were moving and didnt have money to store it.. i admit that i missed it when it was gone.. we went back to our 24inch old timey hunk of junk.. with the warped screen. Football players looked like midgets(which i thought was hilarious, especially when they ran) and the moon, or earth looked like eggs... Danny Devito didnt stand a chance with that tv.. so DH went out and spent a couple of house looking at flat screens.... finally decided on one and brought it home. he ALMOST took it back to try out another one.... but he resisted. you're right when you say those suckers are heavy!!! and being the only man in the house he didnt want to risk a back injury that would put him out of work. i have no idea the size of this one.. but if it was any bigger it wouldnt fit the lovely entertainment centre. so we're stuck with it!
....almost tackled my oldest son the other day too when i caught him HITTING the screen with a snorkel... why his grandmother gave him a snorkel, scuba mask, and flippers is beyond me... he's TWO years old!! he did the two year old thing and started whacking things with the fun plastic stick! he got three good whacks in before i could leap over the sofa, dog, all the toys and take it away from him.. now there is a nice half inch scratch on the screen.... thankfully not too noticeable .. but my husband saw it!!! 
didnt think i would ever hear the end of it!! "This tv cost$$$BLABBIDYBLAHBLAHYou gotta pay better Attentionblahblahbla!!" 
sometimes i hate television....