Tiny telly!

[Cerys]

Our lovely 28" telly has been taken away for repairs.  In its place is our tiny portable.  It has no remote control, but luckily we have digital, so a swift retune has enabled us to use the digi remote to change channel and volume.

However, it's so tiny!  One consolation is the thought of how big the other's going to seem when we get it back, but in the meantime I feel oddly deprived.  And thoroughly decadent because of this.

If there's a point to this post, it's probably to ponder how spoiled we are by technology.  Or at least how much of a couch potato I am.

[Morrisfan82]

When I was a kid all I ever wanted was a little TV in a wristwatch. Surely they've got the technology to make them nowadays? Come on boffins, sort it out!

[Angst in my Pants]

I can relate to this - my 32" CRT broke down before Christmas, and given I only got a small amount of money back from the insurance company I decided to "make do" with my 15" portable until I could afford my dream 32" LCD after Christmas .  Throughout all the films I rented and shows I watched in that period, I kept thinking how rubbish they looked, then cursing myself for being such a selfish, decadent fool.

Three weeks ago I finally got the new one, and now I'm astounded at how large the screen is.  I love it, of course, but I am left thinking "Did I ever really need 32 inches?"

Oo-er, obviously.

[mothman]

We seem to do OK with a 28" and we have a decent-sized living-room. Then again, prior to getting our current TV we went for a year using a Sony mini-widescreen, 20" I think - after squinting at that for so long, a bigger screen is heaven.

Funny how TVs always manage to break down just before Christmas - has happened to my family too. Must be a tradition, or an old charter, or something.

[Lady Beaner]

I am still rather agog at the TV that my parents just bought themselves. A 42 inch HD Pioneer plasma. Honestly, it is like something out of a spaceship! I walked into the house over last weekend and was confronted by what appeared to be wall-to-wall television! And on top of that it is on some sort of wall bracket, so you can pull the thing AWAY from the wall and point it in any direction around the ground floor of the house. It is almost terrifying.

The I had to go home and sit in front of my 'tiny' 32 in television.

Personally I love technology, a secret gadget freak that likes to touch (and break) things. My Step-dad is worse though. If it's new, he wants it yesterday - hence silly sized telly space-ship thing. He bought me a huge Panasonic surround sound system two years ago... I still don't know how to program the radio on it, or listen to MP3s.

[chumfatty]

Funny how TVs always manage to break down just before Christmas - has happened to my family too. Must be a tradition, or an old charter, or something.

Yes, my TV broke just before Christmas also. Not the main Telly but the Telly I use my PS2 on, in the studio/study/meeja room (the small spare bedroom).

I was quite upset, I have had this Telly for 17 years!, I bought it 2nd hand for £15 when my brother, an electrician, was refitting a bookies. I used to play my Mega Drive on it and watch my brothers Porno vids when he was out *sniff*.

[Morrisfan82]

I have had this Telly for 17 years!, I bought it 2nd hand for £15 when my brother, an electrician, was refitting a bookies.

Heh, did it have Ceefax burned into the screen?

[terminallyrelaxed]

When I moved into my current house, they had a 12" on a shoebox in the corner, with four and a half channels lightly dusted with multicoloured snow, served on a bed of frustration.
£60 in cash converters and a mini-cab ride later, we have a gorgeous 28" with perfect picture and everything. Oh and a freeview box.

If the house caught fire my flatmates would burn to death arguing over whose turn it was to replace the batteries in the smoke machine.

[chumfatty]

Heh, did it have Ceefax burned into the screen?

No but it was one of those that had a glass panel attached to the front, I though the colour was slightly off for days, then realised it was nicotine stained glass.

[mothman]

If the house caught fire my flatmates would burn to death arguing over whose turn it was to replace the batteries in the smoke machine.

Oh, this made me giggle. I know the type. I bet one of them has a beard.

[GetTheeBehindMeStan]

I bet one of them has a beard.

Fucking beardist.

[Still Not George]

Oddly enough, it was just before Christmas that our telly went on the fritz.  It's a conspiracy, I tell you.

What's the origin of 'on the fritz' to mean 'slightly buggered', anyway?  Is there a pesky Austrian out there somewhere who goes around vandalising household electricals?

Edit - oops, that was me.  Me being Cerys.  SNG is currently entertaining t'sprog.