Square eyed
An idea struck me while watching the Eurovision song contest last night. No, I'm not going to say anything about the quality of music or the politics involved in voting. Instead I wanted to point at the fact the wide-screen TV is now so much the standard that no thought is given to those of us who are quite happy watching the old 4:3 screens.
The TV we use is about 18 years old, It's actually one of the first models with a scart interface, which means it can still be connected to pretty much anything. It still works perfectly, great screen, good sound. Add to this that I'm not likely to spend much time in front of it (I only follow four TV series*), and there really isn't a good reason to buy a new one.
For the Eurovision contest this means I could see the points of the left column) but couldn't really see which countries they were. There was more then enough talk in between to figure some out, and they kept giving the top 3, but I had no real idea who numbers 4 and 5 were.
When I watch commercials this actually gets almost Zen-like. Many commercials will show the brand name in one of the corners. This results in me seeing some really artistic short films with an occasional urge to buy something, and not knowing what it was about.
Am I alone in this, or are there more of you watching old-style TVs?
*) Doctor Who, Torchwood, Criminal Minds, BSG
The TV we use is about 18 years old, It's actually one of the first models with a scart interface, which means it can still be connected to pretty much anything. It still works perfectly, great screen, good sound. Add to this that I'm not likely to spend much time in front of it (I only follow four TV series*), and there really isn't a good reason to buy a new one.
For the Eurovision contest this means I could see the points of the left column) but couldn't really see which countries they were. There was more then enough talk in between to figure some out, and they kept giving the top 3, but I had no real idea who numbers 4 and 5 were.
When I watch commercials this actually gets almost Zen-like. Many commercials will show the brand name in one of the corners. This results in me seeing some really artistic short films with an occasional urge to buy something, and not knowing what it was about.
Am I alone in this, or are there more of you watching old-style TVs?
*) Doctor Who, Torchwood, Criminal Minds, BSG