A 13" Sanyo as a Full-Screen Device
I refuse to buy a new tube television—and those who know that I grew up in the ghetto would smack me for not keeping it real. Every ‘black dude’ needs his big-ass color television—shit, even Hannibal tried to steal the Coliseum out of Rome so he can catch the games.
Tube Tee Vees are old school. They are not flexible enough to integrate into the new, high-definition world, of light-weight, streamlined, personal computing—and I refuse to invest in a new one. It really breaks my heart to know that so few of my chocolate colored associates use computers to free themselves from broadcast television and commercial cable hooked up to a big-ass dumb tube. I can’t escape the sight of people voluntarily fettering themselves to commercial television instead of replacing it with one’s own programming. It’s like listening to the radio exclusively instead of building one’s own record collection. I thought only financially impoverished people do that… Wrong! I was shocked to find that bling-bling folks want to be a captive audience and will go into immediate withdrawal when you turn the idiot-part of the idiot box off. So the picture below should look very strange and foreign to many of my homies:
I know this looks a little primitive folks but I guess I’ve always felt a little different from the other boys growing up: I want to control what comes into my living space and I see that pollution comes in many forms besides what’s on garbage trucks and in smokestacks. So, above you see me rocking Channel 9 and Jean Paoli (Co-creator of XML) instead of blasting another fried chicken commercial. What’s more is that I can pump the same signal to my television from my ‘media server’ in the next room (via long-ass Monster cables). This kicks ass. It beats down yet another news anchor covered in clown makeup trying to tell me about the real world. Dan Rather? Peter Jennings? All whores! It’s all about Amy Goodman, streaming over the web on my demand!
So keep in mind that my media server in the next room also has a DVD player and can output what’s on the computer screen as well. So when my son is playing MS Flight Simulator I can watch him throughout the crib—and, for a brief moment, he has total control of the media intake of the whole house. How’s that for child development? We are all watching him do something. Instead of all of us sitting around doing nothing as chicken-fried couch potatoes.
So the prices for LCD panels look very attractive this year and they come with all the connections. As soon as I get some sugar-momma money from one of my rich friends I’ll be set.