clinging to analog

[Dorothy Wood]

so, I'm watching the worst show ever right now. Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen.

because everything else is snow and I didn't feel like buying a digital converter.

for some reason the whole thing makes me really sad. the fact that the kind of t.v. I grew up watching...the visceral experience of it, will be gone forever.

cordo's had a digital converter forever now, and it's really annoying, all the blips and pixelization. ugh. and the shrinking of the screen. it's dumb.

I don't want that. I think I'm just going to stop watching t.v.

well, except for in my my living room where we have cable, and the internet.


ah! Punk'd is on!

[TurdBerglar]

over the air digital is so much better...

[paul jones]

I miss old style TV too

4 channels.....no MTV

I feel sorry for those poor women on those digital channels on all fours,half naked,waving their phones at you to call them.They'll get a hernia

[A. Chimendez]

Buy a new antennae and you won't have those problems. Except the screen shrinking. But that's being streamlined as well.


Oh and aside from that, nothing is "changing" about the content of television, so your complaint of it not being like your childhood just because the signal is different is irrelevant.

[Dorothy Wood]

Buy a new antennae and you won't have those problems. Except the screen shrinking. But that's being streamlined as well.


Oh and aside from that, nothing is "changing" about the content of television, so your complaint of it not being like your childhood just because the signal is different is irrelevant.

I said "visceral experience", asshole. you're the one who's irrelevant.


I know the benefits of digital, my best friend works at a t.v. station...and, oh yeah, I'm not an idiot. I'm allowed to not like it though. with analog it's fuzzy sometimes, but at least you can hear it, when the digital signal gets interrupted, you miss stuff and it's super annoying.

it was just weird to be watching t.v. and then at midnight, *shhhhhhsshshshsh*

and t.v.'s not going to ever look or sound the same again. its just weird is all, and I am going to quietly mourn, then get a digital tuner next week so I watch all the new channels. I hear there's one that plays movies all day long. that sounds pretty neat.

[TurdBerglar]

how much are these digital tuners?


you might be better off just getting a small widescreen hd tv. they have the proper tuners already built in.

[Dorothy Wood]

I think they're like 60-80 bucks, and I have the government coupon for $40 off.

I looked into getting a little flat screen, but they're at least 200 bucks. My mom has a pretty sweet white one (like this (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10854033)) that she bought for the guest room in her house. I felt very futuristic watching it. I liked the quality better than her and her husband's stupid huge flat screen in the living room.




holy shit, I need this red t.v.! yes! http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10929999

hmm, I was saving up to take flight lessons, but maybe I need a new t.v. instead. ha.

[A. Chimendez]

Stop buying TVs from Wal Mart.

at least now I know its hip to not like digital. You know, because of the abstract "visceral experience" of the same show broadcast in analog.

[NoFenders]

Hipster!

[Dorothy Wood]

Stop buying TVs from Wal Mart.

at least now I know its hip to not like digital. You know, because of the abstract "visceral experience" of the same show broadcast in analog.

just because you had to look up what the word "visceral" means, doesn't mean you have to act like a little bitch.

it's good to know that every opinion I hold becomes automatically hip though, that's awesome.

regarding wal mart and the buying of TVs: how can I stop doing something I never started? I've had my t.v. for 15 years and I will buy a new one when it explodes. I was just looking up prices and figured wal mart would have the lowest.


what's the matter, jim? did you get into a fight with your wife and decide to come around here and puff out your chest to make yourself feel better? or are you just in a bad mood because you live in wisconsin?

[Dorothy Wood]

Hipster!

D-bag!

[destructo]

or are you just in a bad mood because you live in wisconsin?

What do you have against Wisconsin? Just curious.

[Dorothy Wood]

What do you have against Wisconsin? Just curious.


nothing really. I'm just bein' a dick. :cool:

[NoFenders]

Don't just be one, use one.:cool:

[A. Chimendez]

nothing really. I'm just bein' a dick. :cool:


And I just felt your reasoning was silly. No need to try to insult my intelligence; i didn't have to "look up" anything.

[Dorothy Wood]

you didn't understand my reasoning, yet felt the need to put me down in a ridiculous manner.

I said nothing about the programming being different. My t.v. is just not going to look or feel the same. how is that even a position to be judged? I didn't pass judgement on people who enjoy digital television. I just said I don't like it. big f'ing deal.

it's just weird is all. I still remember what it was like before everyone had cable. my family had one tiny black and white t.v. until I was 5. you're too young to remember that stuff. so shut up.

[roosta]

a while back we found an old VHS copy of "First Blood" and put it on.

THere was a little thrill out of the wobbly sound at times, and having to "track" it in.

I wouldn't want it ever to come back; but there is something to be said about the old visceral experience of analog things. I guess its more nostalgia then anything. I know people say "music sounds better on vinyl" etc etc. Films don't look any better on VHS/analog etc. In fact, they look/sound way worse. BUT there is a feeling there. Something beyond just "quality".