[mdlug-discuss] Incomprehension

[Ingles, Raymond]

I've got a nice 52" 1080p tv. It's hooked up to an air antenna and a digital
cable box, so it's got a decent number of HD channels. It's also hooked to a
PS3, so it even sees the occasional blu-ray disc.

 I was at my neighbor's, down the street, for my son's cub scout den meeting
last night. I knew a few months ago, at the beginning of the summer, he'd picked
up a 65" LCD TV. He hadn't mounted it at that point, so it was taking up
basically the entire fireplace.

 As of last night, he *still* hadn't mounted it. It's so big he has zero
clearance between the ceiling and the mantel, so he needs a mount that allows the
TV to be inserted horizontally, rather than lowered onto the mount. He saw them
before he bought it, but he hasn't been able to find one since.

 What really amazed me was that he had no HD feeds into it. He'd "hooked up an
antenna once", but he was using a standard (not upscaling) DVD player and getting
only the analog cable channels. I showed him how to do a channel search and
picked up the ~125 unencrypted digital channels (mostly music channels) on the
cable network here.

 I am not able to rightly apprehend the mindset of someone who would buy that big
a TV and not research or plan how to get at least the basic broadcast HD
channels...

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                        (313) 227-2317

 "I've never understood people who interpret the Bible literally,
                  and the Constitution loosely."
    - Bill Maher, "When You Ride Alone You Ride With bin Laden"
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