Yeah, ironically technology is supposed to get less complicated and more user friendly as time goes on, but TV's have gone in the opposite direction. Keeping up with it requires some major commitment.
Surround sound systems have done the same thing with all the complicated audio codecs and master audio tracks, bitstreaming, internal vs. external decoding, big fat mess.
MP3 players managed to get pretty user friendly with stuff like the Ipod, as have PC's and to a larger degree Macs, but TV's are more complicated than ever, and even people who know what they are talking about can have a hard time keeping up.
On a lighter note, I'm a total sucker for 120 hz TV's. They give me a hard-on. Anyone seen a 240 hz set yet? They finally rolled out a few not too long ago I believe.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
