[mdlug-discuss] Incomprehension

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> 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
> researc or plan how to get at least the basic
> broadcast HD channels...
>

My off-the-cuff phrase for people like that is
"More money than brains"