Broken TV NOT caused by errant Wii controller!
As some of you may know, I’ve been without a TV for about two weeks. Essentially it turns out that my kid brothers five foot tall guitar amp and the massive magnets inside it have, according to Samsung “fucked up your TV way hardcore”
Its fine, my new one arrives later today courtesy of John Lewis’ complimentary 5 year warranty.
What I’m writing about though is the fact that I haven’t really missed having a TV. I just watch everything via my laptop. All the programming I’m interested in is available online, my podcasts are tucked away in iTunes and when it comes to serialised stuff like Peep Show/24 etc I generally buy those on dvd anyway. Mainly this is down to the fact that I’m one of those people who has to watch the next episode straight after the old one otherwise I’ll forget what the hell is going on. That does apply more to 24 than Peep Show though, just to clarify.
Despite my earlier post about the new COD being rubbish, I do miss gaming, my PS3 hasn’t been on in over a week and I really wanna play the new HD Street Fighter. I’ve been unable to watch blu-rays since the TV has been away, but that in itself isn’t a massive problem - if I didn’t have a TV in the first place I’d just have bought the films on dvd instead.
The whole episode has really got me thinking about whether a TV is necessary these days. If you’re a console gamer or you want HD content and you don’t have a laptop that’ll play blu-rays then yeah you need a TV. But if you don’t then maybe you should pass on owning one. You won’t need to pay a television licence (probably) and it frees up loads more space in the room for that coffee table you’ve been thinking of buying but have nowhere to put.
On the flipside, owning a TV is very much like owning a penis. Even if you hardly use it you still want to have a bigger one than the next guy.
