Waiting...

My new Samsung 52” LED DLP HDTV is awaiting pickup at FedEx but it won’t fit in my Accord and my wife has the SUV. It’s been some six months since I started looking at HD TVs. It was tough for me to fathum shelling out over $1000 for a TV. After probably a dozen trips to Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears, and a few other stores, I still had a hard time justifying the cost. All the models I wanted were over $2000 and it seemed like all of them, when you watched fast motion, looked horrible. There were big square blocks when the image rendering couldn’t keep up. DLP TVs were a big improvement, but you have to replace the bulbs every two or three years. Then I found out about the LED DLPs that have the performance advantage but no bulb to replace. The only drawback was the viewing angle isn’t as wide as the other DLPs but who’s going to watch a TV at a sharp angle anyway. Nobody but my wife’s brother when the family gets together, and he’s an idiot.

So I finally took the plunge last weekend. I got a good deal on Amazon with free shipping and no taxes. Now my TV is waiting for me at the FedEx. And my wife is out of town with the SUV. And so I post on JoeUser to kill time.

Ode to my TV
MY heart aches for my TV,
A drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
As my TV sits alone, without my watch.
One minute past, now another,
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
While I await my TV.