My old TV broke yesterday. Well, not exactly mine, but the one in our living room. The old TV was a CRT TV with a huge box-like appearance. I don’t quite remember how long we’ve had it, I think it came free when we signed a contract for the cable TV or something. I quite like the old TV, it’s the right size (29 inches), and I enjoyed watching things on it. However, it broke down and refused to turn on.
So we got a new TV yesterday. It’s one of those fancy-schmanzy flat-panel full HD LCD TV that’s as skinny as a runway model. It’s bigger, 32 inches, and it can read SD cards and USB flash drives, making it an overpriced photo frame I suppose.It has 1920×1080 pixels, if that’s the kind of things you understand. So we came home and hooked up the TV to the Starhub set-top box. The graphics look like shit. Imagine taking analogue TV signal and stretching it to a 12:9 aspect ratio. It didn’t have the sort of clarity and WOW I expected with a HD TV. So I did a little scouring on the Internet and it turned out that to make full use of the HD-ness of my new TV, we need HD-compliant set-top boxes instead. Great, and so now we have to pay more per month just so we can watch TV clearly. So we bought a TV to incur more cost. Great news technology!
