Food And Television
First a quick note about the quitting smoking adventure.
Food. Bring on the food. Which kind of sucks, as I was hoping to avoid that entirely, but now that things are starting to reset, food has started to come into focus more clearly now. As in the fact that food tastes much better than commit tablets. I have had one today, and really would like to avoid another one. Bad thing, I’ve really had the urge to light one up for the past two days.
I’ll eat a bunch of small snacks throughout the day. I may have to push up to another commit to curb that urge, but it’s like anniversary day I guess. It was last Tuesday around this time in the afternoon that I had my last cigarette. So I have made it this far, and will push forward. Hopefully I can somehow manage not to gain 50 lbs from eating all the time. Though it is said that eating 6 or more times daily should help speed up the metabolism.
Now on to my thoughts on television. It’s dead. Kill it. Stick a fork in it, it’s done. But there is a bigger issue that I see. That is the fact that people that end up with 60″ plus flat screens are pretty well stuck to that format.
I guess my thought is, for at least my family – the three of us all like to watch different things. Now with all the convenience of DVR’s, Slingboxes, etc… we still haven’t addressed the fact that you need a separate viewing device for each one. Or basically to have a family all sit in one room and watch one monster 60″ plus TV, you are still stuck with one show on it.
Nothing has really been solved or is revolutionary if you ask me. It’s just bigger, not better. Ok – HD is better, but really – you are still stuck in 20th Century technology concerning the device itself. One TV. One show at a time. 60″ of either pure pleasure, or pure crap – depending upon your point of view or likes and dislikes.
The choice is – you end up buying 3 smaller 42″ televisions, or how about this – a piece of hardware that integrates into the 60″ plus television that divides up the pixels on the screen for each person. This box would be like a simple splitter, but more advanced as you would be dividing up that screen real estate by the 3 people watching. Not only that, the dedicated screen real estate would have to also be in it’s own zone of audio, wifi, bluetooth content delivery and reception.
For example, I could than hook up my Macbook via bluetooth or wifi connection to one part, and segment out the left lower part of the screen. I could watch Hulu in one part, grab the top left corner and maybe watch something I recorded on the DVR, and in the middle left part answer a few e-mails and surf. My kid could watch his cartoon network in the middle section, and the better half could watch her DVR shows on the right.
We thereby share a 60″ plus television, and all 3 of us via the technology that is available such as wireless ear buds for the separated audio content we would be listening too – can all enjoy the shows or choices we wish to view. All on one television screen, which of course would encourage the television makers to go way beyond the 60″ plus limit and finally release what we have seen in those electronic events – the 100″ plus units that are as thin as a piece of paper.
Technically Speaking, maybe some hardware manufacturer is already working on this device, or maybe it already exists and I just happened to miss it in reading feeds. Either way, I think it brings people in closer connection, even though they are doing their own thing in their own pixel space, but still – it beats having to end up buying three 42″ flat screens so everyone can watch what they want.
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