PUTTING THE “DEF” IN “HIGH DEFINITION”

Look at what arrived in ny home this afternoon.



Why yes, it IS a 32” flatscreen HDTV panel. And yes, that IS Alex Fong washing a tiger.

BACKGROUND: Hong Kong has had HD/digital TV since December – which means eight channels of next to nothing to watch instead of the usual four – but Team Def has been running on legacy analog TVs because they worked perfectly well.

Until around ten days ago, when the Philips in the living room ‘sploded.

So we went TV shopping. And as it’s now impossible to buy anything except a flatscreen, we figured we might as well leapfrog to something with an integrated HD tuner instead of buying HD-ready, which is slightly cheaper but requires a set-top box add-on, which more or less evens things out, pricewise.

One of the fun things about shopping for HDTVs is that, when you go to the electronics store and stand in front of all those screen running HDTV all at once, the level of detail can be overwhelming. The bridal unit reported symptoms of Rich Detail Overload. “WAAAAAHHHH, my head hurts!” she excalimed. “It’s too much clarity! I need reality filters for my eyeballs!”

And so on.

Anyway, we’re officially members of the 21st century now. I thought you should know.

FUN FACT: The term “set-top box” makes me smile. It seems quaint in these days when TVs are no longer designed for you to set anything on top of. Ha ha. Good one, Consumer Electronics Industry. That's almost as funny as designing TVs that require a trained electrician to install. Progress!

High fidelity,

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YOUTUBE SURVIVOR SERIES #46: THAT’S A LOT OF FOLDING CHAIRS

Spotted on Neatorama: one of the great moments in professional wrestling, in which Cactus Jack and Terry Funk request a folding chair from the audience with which to smite The Public Enemy – and get about 40.

bedsitter23 or garbagecanmusic probably know more background than me, but I think ECW used to do this gimmick quite a bit. I’ve seen it done one or two other times.

Now THAT’S entertainment.

Chairmen of the board,

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A NIGHT AT THE GENETIC OPERA

ITEM [via YesButNoButYes]: Regarding the recent news that MTV is remaking Rocky Horror, evidently the idea’s being made even more redundant by this year’s OTHER film version of a successful S&M stage musical influenced by horror movies:

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Directed by the guy who did the Saw sequels

Pro: nifty Pythonesque B-movie plot where big HMOs repossess yr organs if you miss a payment, excessive Goth BDSM imagery, cast includes Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino and Ogre from Skinny Puppy

Cons: the music is warmed over nu-metal, cast includes Sarah Brightman and Paris Hilton (yes, that one)

Is it the 21st Century Rocky Horror? I doubt it. But it’s demented enough that I may just have to see it anyway.

Can we have yr liver,

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