Aieee! TV is coming tomorrow!

[dreamshark]

The Men in the White Gloves will be pounding on our door tomorrow morn, expecting a nice well-planned, well-dusted resting place for our very own piece of America. 42 inches of 2-dimensional, plasma-ized America. No longer will we be part of the 18% of Minnesotans that are Tragically Unprepared for the Second Coming of the television age. The three of us are sort of doing a tag-team job of cleaning and rearranging the attic. None of us actually work terribly well with the other two, so it's best if there aren't too many of us in the same place at once. It did take all three of us to heave the old monster Sony TV into the back room of the attic, however, and we were lucky we only had to carry it 3 feet from the rolling table to the back of the storage space. Holy F*ck that thing is heavy!!

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

We are among the Tragically Unprepared. But since our TV signal comes in cable, it should be OK, don't you think?

K.

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I am prepared, because I'm pretty sure the tv/monitor I got is ready.

But I don't watch tv.

[emerdavid.livejournal.com]

Probably OK. Most cable companies now transmit digital nowadays. If your TV set itself isn't set up for receiving digital signals directly, then the cable company probably supplied a converter box (cable goes to box, box goes to TV, TV is permanently tuned to channel 3, remote control changes the channel on the cable box rather than on the TV).

So you're not Tragically Unprepared. At least not for digital TV; I can't speak to the rest of your life. :-)

[emerdavid.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask if I could have your old one, until you described how heavy and unwieldly it is. Never mind!

We are...

[mmagidow.livejournal.com]

...Tragically (and dramatically) unprepared, and proud of it. Still trying to figger out how to hook up the internet to our nice Motorola console...

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Sorry, if you have cable you don't get counted among the Tragic. You may not be able to view your shows digitally, but you still get them. The Great Tragedy that everyone is worried about is that somewhere between 10 and 15% of the population will have to STOP WATCHING TV (at least on their own sets).

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

It has a beautiful picture though. And better yet, it used to belong to Lois Bujold! That should be worth something, doncha think?

We also have a couple of working DVD players and two very old but still functional VCR players to give away.

[emerdavid.livejournal.com]

Which would of course spell The End Of Civilization As We Know It, right?