It’s a free country, and consumers can spend their money any way they wish and buy any consumer product they wish. It’s none of my business, and I certainly wouldn’t want government to tell anyone “how to live their life” and I wouldn’t take it upon myself to tell anyone “how to live their life”.
That being said, my personal opinion is that most people (myself included) have too much “stuff”. And usually too much debt — because buying all that “stuff” often costs more than you make.
Many people have turned themselves into slaves where they are tied to their jobs, bogged down by student loans, unable to retire, and pretty much miserable. Our whole society is extremely fragile due to personal debt, business debt, government debt, etc.
New standard for TV? Actually, FOUR new standards for TV? Is this something you need? Can’t enjoy “American Idol” because your 55” TV is only HDTV?? Do you need to rush out and buy the next fancy consumer electronics?
I don’t think society really gets better until people decide to get off this treadmill of chasing shiny objects. But that’s just me.
(NOTE: I no longer own a TV, so I have no idea how good these new things are: I simply don’t care.)
Long post for someone that doesn’t own a tv and doesn’t care about TV’s.
U wrote all that I may have said. I, too, haven’t had anyTV for a while now, I surely don’t miss it.
Don’t mean to give away my age but if they bring back “the rifleman”, “Gunsmoke” “bonanza” and other westerns maybe I’ll rehook the antenna.
I have an old TV, but notice that many shows broadcast for a wide screen picture nowadays. Often I can tell that the ends are cut off of my square shaped TV screen.
I hope I’m not missing much. Just noting that I’m way behind on the changes in TV, what with wide screen and hi def or whatever other terms which I don’t even know what they mean.
Ditto with radio broadcasting. I’ve noted some radio stations give call letters then also note they are on an HD channel. I am not familiar with that either. I only know about AM and FM. Heck I have radios for which the AM dial only goes up to 1600 kilocycles.
I know I’m behind the times on some of this but also not sure I’m missing anything. Somebody told me to ditch satellite TV and get Netflix instead. There too, I don’t know what Netflix would add to the quality of my life.
I have an old TV,,,
Watch DVDs only..
Watching an”old movie”...
Ben Hur
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!