out with the new, in with the old



I’ve been a fool.  Suckered in by the fancy cosmetics and sexy packaging. Just cos it’s new don’t make it better. This applies to audio gear, cars, motorbikes, women and,  i just learnt, televisions.

i learnt many things when we were finishing off the Trust Me video. I learnt that when you ride your bike home pissed and stack it bad you should always take your teeth away with you. I also learnt that cathode ray tv’s actually have the best picture.In this lovely plush post production studio with fruit and HD the main monitor was a CRT beast that cost the price of a car.

Yes, the big fucking heavy box tv’s that we’ve all binned in recent years are actually better than all the LCD, plasma’s that re on sale today. I feel completely naive. Just a few weeks ago I did a car booty and we ended up giving away a load of old tv’,s they were so fucking heavy and shit that we just couldn’t be bothered to even put them back in the van. That’s a lie, we TRIED to give them away. No one wanted them. Shit it, this is some betamax shit. The market winner isn’t the best after all, but merely the survivor. We can’t have cathode ray tv’s anymore cos they can’t be recycled, it’s nothing to do with the picture quality. Plus of course they are a right pain to carry up multiple flights of stairs and they require a full size coffee table to house them but nonetheless when it comes to watching TV, an old tube TV is the best. You can’t buy one anymore but that just makes them all the more desirable.

So it seems all these new tv’s we’ve upgraded to are inferior to the ones we’ve just binned, and the reason we’ve binned the box tv’s is cos they can’t be recycled Absolute madness. We would have been better keeping the old ones, better picture and no need for recycling aftar all.

Fortunately i never got round to upgrading and so after a titanic struggle with four sets of stairs I am now rocking a beast of an old skool set up which when combined with some booming 5.1 absolutely rapes Mike’s new LED, HD, stereo only bollocks.

don’t believe the hype.