3 Things I Learned From My Very Large Television
As revealed in a previous installment, I, through an extraordinary stroke of luck, am now the owner of a very large television. I hate to tempt fate by celebrating my good fortune, but, man, it is a wondrous object to behold.
This is what it has taught me so far:
1) The S-Video cable is your friend. (This is not to slight its colleague, the Component Video Cable, but it already gets all the girls.)
2) I now understand why universally reviled action-effects movies like Van Helsing and Elektra defy all taste and reason to rack up huge sales on DVD. It’s all about the surround, baby.
3) By the time the studios and exhibitors agree on a business scheme for the installation of digital projectors in theaters, the audience will accept them just fine. I used to think folks would object to the flatter, brighter image you get from the new projection technology, with its distinctively digital blues and oranges, its blown-out whites, and its visibly pixelly edges. Now I see that consumers will be used to all of these things from their Home Theaters, and will associate them with the very best in image quality.