I like to think I have a nice TV. It's a little bit older, a little bit old school, it's not a flat screen or HD or plasma or LCD or LED or LSD. Yet it's a great TV with a really good picture. DVD's look really good as do video games and cable. While I would love to have a snazzy new top of the line television, the one I have works great and at the time I bought it was kinda expensive therefore, I'm good with what I got. Hell it does everything I ask of it, it plays DVDs and current video games and has a nice picture and sound. I don't really give a shit about HD TV, I'm sure Blu-Ray DVD's are nice, they don't make my favorite movies any better and there's no way I'm payin' extra for HD TV, my cable bill is already too big. Even if I did pay for HD TV what would really be the point? So I can surf through 200 channels of ain't-shit-on that at least it would be 200 channels of High Definition ain't-shit-on? Don't reallly need it, I'm cool kickin' it with my Old Skool TV.
All's good.
That is until they switched formats on me. Yep those Bastards are evil.
Back in the day all TV transmisions were sent to fit a standard TV and all was good. Then widscreen TVs came along. This format better fit the way movies are formatted so watching widescreen dvds would use less of the black lines at the top and bottom of the screen, referred to as letterboxing.
Widescreen really is the ideal way to watch movies as you get the whole picture (nothings cut off either side) and you don't have to bother with that awful pan & scan where the have the camera move back and forth unaturally over the existing film. Ugh.
So around this time more and more TV shows were being shot in widescreen and would appear on TV in the letterbox format, which actually would up being kinda cool as it gave shows like ER a more dramatic and cinematic feel. Not all shows were like this but everyday more and more were appearing in letterbox. While this didn't add anything to say an episode of say the American version of The Office, it didn't hurt it either. If nothing else the creators of these shows now had a slightly bigger canvas to work on every week with wider camera angles to be taken advantage of. So the did. As Shows got used to the new format many were able to properly utilize all the extra space and would now frame shots in this way.
No problem Right? Right.
Well that is until somebody somewhere decided that to properly keep up with today's technology and that fact that possibly the majority of TVs out are widescreen (a fact that I believe to be true but just don't really care to do the research on) it's best to now transmit the TV signals in widescreen format. Well this is just grand for all those fancy schmancy widescreen HD LCD LED OPP TV owners, yet it kinda screws us standard TV users. Picture this (no pun attended) you're watching a show and all is good till they just happen to cut to a wide angle and guees what? The damn side are cut off! The damn sides are cut off! You don't get to see the whole picture because your ass didn't go out and but a new TV. Well why would you if you didn't need it? Cause you're an ass and just need to have the newest technology wether it's neccessary or not? What the Hell? And there's not an option anywhere to to watch shows in a different way the way spanish speaking people get to watch show in spanish why isn't there a way for use to watch TV the old way? Why you ask? Because they purpose pull this crap so that you'll go out and unnecceasily go buy a new boob tube. You see they figure tha market is already saturated pretty well with the fancy new TVs but yet they know there still many holdouts like myself for the sole purpose of inconvienincing us. It's a damn conspiracy to get everyone to go out and bu a new TV. Be smart, if you have and older TV stick it to 'em by using that thing as long as possible. And when it starts going don't buy a fancy new HD TV, get your old one fixed or find a new old one on craiglist that you can trade a fish tank or car battery for. It's Ok you're not gonna use that fish tank, it's sitting out in your garage filled with oily rags and a manual for a 1997 Geo Metro that you own anymore. Just get rid of it and get a new old TV while you're at it.
We'll show them.
Down with new fangled TVs.
Down tith the conspiracies.
Down with the Man!
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