Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Video
Take a dollar bill out of your wallet and fold it into thirds. It'll be roughly 2.5 inches by 2 inches. This is the size of the video ipod screen. Now as I understand it, and I'm probably wrong since I've never even held an ipod, you can buy a copy of a TV show for $1.99 and play it on your ipod - on that teeny itty-bitty screen.
First, this is a TV show you probably already paid to watch on your cable.(note: I'm probably the last person [or close to it] in North America who is still using rabbit ears to watch his TV.) And if you didn't watch it the first time, there's probably a rerun of it as we speak. From what I've heard, shows like CSI and Law And Order are replayed about 37 1/2 times a day. Assuming you didn't see it the first time and haven't caught it the second time, you can now spend an extra $1.99 to watch it on something the size of a matchbook cover. (By the way, how many crimes in movies do you think have been solved because the criminal left a matchbook behind?)
Can you imagine the closed captions on that? They're probably about 3 pixels high. And can you imagine trying to (or even wanting to) sneaking a peak down the cleavage of Teri Hatcher or Jennifer Anniston? Even Pam Anderson wouldn't cover more than a couple of pixels at a time. And sports? How about checking that goal line stand in the NFC championship game - or if number 22 stepped out of bounds on the forty? I can't even tell that on my 28" TV - which I at one time was feeling sorry for being so small compared to the 60 and 80 inch flatscreens and projection TVs.
It's rough to be getting old...
