{"id":3678,"date":"2005-09-10T21:06:29","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the-tv-broke.html"},"modified":"2005-09-10T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2005-09-10T21:06:29","slug":"the-tv-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the-tv-broke.html","title":{"rendered":"The TV Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"

After eight years of illustrious service my rear-projection TV died. I ordered a new Sony TV online. It is also rear-projection but had good reviews and I think I will like it a lot. The price online was much lower than in the store and although I feel guilty for not buying in the store where I saw the set, if the price difference is huge I am just not going to throw away good money that the oil companies would prefer I donate to a better cause \u2013 like lining their pockets for example.
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By the way, this weekend I had the displeasure of filling up my tank at what must be the world\u2019s slowest pump. I thought about switching gas stations or even pumps but it would have cost me about $10 just to start and move the car. If time is money, I got robbed twice.<\/p>\n

But I digress. We have no TV and a DVD to watch \u2013 Meet The Fockers. I tried to convince my wife that my IBM laptop a T42P is great to watch the DVD on as it has very high resolution and the 15\u201d screen is great. We will just put the laptop on the coffee table I proposed.<\/p>\n

I may as well have asked government officials to take a shorter vacation at the end of August for the response I got. We contemplated connecting the DVD player to the TV in the bedroom. I imagined the work of having to connect everything up \u2013 I was not in the mood.<\/span><\/p>\n


I had an idea.\u00a0 I got the laptop out and put it on the coffee table and started the movie. The family was in awe. You gotta love IBM laptops.<\/p>\n

I think dimming the lights is what really did it for me as the atmosphere was perfect.<\/p>\n

Guess what! I get away with working \u2013 checking e-mails and blogging while the kids get changed. Who would have guessed?<\/p>\n

I can only imagine how life will change when I start downloading movies or streaming them using IPTV. I am looking forward to the future with great anticipation.

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