There are moments in our lives when insights reveal themselves in special events and the world is never the same again. The birth of a child. A marriage. A devastating illness or injury. A milestone birthday. A career change. <\/p>\n
Or when you realize your TV screen isn\u2019t big enough. <\/p>\n
BLAMMO! <\/p>\n
Hurricane Irma did it for me. We were staying with friends \u2014 designated by the county as the official Thompson evacuation shelter \u2014 and I was watching The Weather Channel, mesmerized. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a big dang TV!\u201d I told my friend. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s like a Jumbotron. I\u2019m seriously concerned Irma might just roar out it and bowl me over. If I still have a house after this, I need a big dang TV, too!\u201d<\/p>\n
He just looked at me and said: \u201cYeah man, I think you do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thank you, Hurricane Irma. You have helped me to see the light.
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We\u2019ve had our main family TV for several years now. What was once a large, thin, cutting edge screen by the standards of the past now seems like it was built by a caveman with some sticks, mud and a few lighting bugs. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s up there in years and we may need an upgrade. But I\u2019m learning the process of picking a new TV isn\u2019t the easiest. It takes studying and learning and asking knowledgeable questions of friends like: \u201cDo you think the new 4K decoding coupled with the anabolic LED stereorific monitor is here to stay?\u201d<\/p>\n
If the answer is \u201cum, uh \u2026 sure?\u201d then you know you\u2019re on to something. <\/p>\n
Remember a time when the biggest choice you had was deciding between a TV the size of a serial box or a TV the size of two cereal boxes? In fact, thanks to cathode ray tubes and flux capacitors, TVs were deeper than the screen was wide. To install it, a delivery truck had to literally back into your house and a crane lifted it into position. The only thing that could support its weight was a stack of concrete blocks in your living room. Few people realized this back then, but TVs were the second most common cause of sinkholes. <\/p>\n
The actual screens, though, were tiny by today\u2019s standards. TVs now come in a dizzying array of sizes, styles, shapes, brands, resolutions and even levels of \u201csmart-\u201cness. In fact, some of the TVs are so smart you can\u2019t even buy them unless you pass some standardized test. Snobby nerd TVs!<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure I care about features \u2014\u00a0only size. But I\u2019m worried. When I measured the wall recently and declared we need to move the stairwell, my wife put a block on the computer preventing me from viewing any TVs larger than 144 inches. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to keep working at it. Running the numbers. Taking measurements. Trying to figure out what 4K actually means, and hopefully find something that doesn\u2019t look like it was constructed by a caveman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are moments in our lives when insights reveal themselves in special events and the world is never the same again. The birth of a child. A marriage. A devastating illness or injury. A milestone birthday. A career change. Or when you realize your TV screen isn\u2019t big enough. BLAMMO! Hurricane Irma did it for me. We were staying with friends \u2014 designated by the county as the official Thompson evacuation shelter \u2014 and I was watching The Weather Channel, mesmerized. \u201cThat\u2019s a big dang TV!\u201d I told my friend. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s like a Jumbotron. I\u2019m seriously concerned Irma might just roar out it and bowl me over. If I still have a house after this, I need a big dang TV, too!\u201d He just looked at me and said: \u201cYeah man, I think you do.\u201d Thank you, Hurricane Irma. You have helped me to see the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,559,569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-nutshells","category-technology","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}