June 2, 2009
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why broadcast tv is no longer awesome.
So here I am, staring into the billions of pixels my brand new beautiful 65 inch high-def TV and I decide to watch some old-school “over the air” programing. I haven’t had the pleasure of even owning a TV for the last 6 months so the new set (yes I AM bragging a little here, come on, 65 inches!) was looking pretty awesome in my living room.
So I connect the right wires, hit the menu button and scan for channels. I live in the middle of Scranton so about 15 different channels pop up. I’m excited! Free TV!!!!
Apparently I missed something.
During the last six months the government has issued a decree stating that we all have to switch to digital now. Awesome. While my TV happens to be brand new and comes with a built in digital tuner, millions of other Americans are being forced to purchase Digital Converter boxes that force their television sets TO ACT LIKE A FREAKING SCRATCHED DVD!!!
I mean, seriously, wtf????
Halfway through a Klondike commercial, a guy is about to get the hair waxed off of his chest (I was pretty excited about seeing his reaction) and the tv froze. I waited for about 15 seconds only to see the very end of what I thought was going to be a pretty good commercial.
I sat through about 2 hours of mindless channel surfing getting frustrated ever time the tv would randomly decide to just “skip” important parts of conversation.
THE DIGITAL TRANSITION HAS RUINED MY HOPE FOR A FREE LUNCH!
I think the government is punishing me for not spending more dollars on cable for them to tax every month.
Comments (2)
Holy Hell Your back!!!!!! woohoo …… hello mr jonathan =-) welcome back
To be fair, there’s always Hulu or some shit like that. And most TV is such crap these days it’s best to just go get a used DVD box set of the entire Homicide: Life On The Street off Amazon and roll with that.