Just when I though everyone had a flat screen TV, I saw this in my neighbor’s trash this morning.
As I came around the corner, I first saw the box. I see a new television box on trash day at least once a week. These folks got a modest sized 32 inch “As I came around the corner, I first saw the box. I see a new television box on trash day at least once a week. These folks got a modest sized 32 inch “full HDTV” model. I’ll bet it cost them less than one hundred dollars.
And then I saw their old TV. An old, heavy, tube model from a few years ago. I honestly thought that no one had those anymore. Do you remember carrying those monsters from one room to another? Even the smaller ones, like this model, were heavy (at least fifty pounds) and awkward. At 8-10 pounds, I could lift this one between my thumb and forefinger.
We had deeper furniture and larger entertainment centers to have these in our living rooms. By contrast, this one is no more than one inch thick. I can hang it on the wall like a framed picture.
New TVs are increasingly thinner, lighter, brighter, sharper, smarter and have great sound. The leap from this old curbside TV to the new probably blew them away. Welcome to the twenty-first century.
Oh, and by the way, your new TV will be obsolete in a few months.
Waite for it... 