No, HDTV/Home theater is "embarrsing" to people with no taste or culture whatsoever.....Home theater isnt about friendship, its about entertainment. None of my friends are professional entertainers. The whole mentality that there is something wrong with using home theater or that its somehow a substitute for "real life" for people with no life is completely absurd as you are trying to imply here. Not having a good home theater is no life. No art, no life. Any photographer should know that. I love music too, but I dont have 90 friends who play in an orchestra either. Are you saying I listen to classical music to make 90 new freinds or to simply hear the music? This is crazy. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Forbes Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 4:08 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: It's snowing in hell --OT-some actual numbers Television is a real friend, to people with no real friends. John On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:28:58 -0000, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, 5 hours a day in front of the boob tube is way too much. I > think the 2-3 hours average I spend in front of the box is too much. > > I'd be embarrassed to own up to that. > > Dave > > > At 11:12 AM 18/12/2006, J. C. O'Connell wrote: >> SOME REAL NUMBERS - >> >> I recently installed some run hour meters >> on my new tube audio gear for maintenance >> reasons so I know when to test the tubes >> and when to recalibrate the gear. I had a few >> extra hour meters left over and decided to >> put one on my main HDTV for kicks. I installed it >> on 11/29/06. Its already at 100+ hours >> and today only makes 19 days. Thats >> about 5 hrs a day on average, over 1800 >> hrs a year at that rate. I know it sounds >> like a lot, even more than I even expected, but >> the meter is accurate and its been an average >> viewing month so far for me I would estimate. >> >> I think it proves my point about how much >> use you can get out of these products. Its >> not like something you use once in a while, >> it's a day in, day out, lots and lots of hours >> thingy. Thats the reason why I called these >> home entertainment bargains. Not only are they way better than ever, >> you can get a hell of a whole lot of enjoyment out of that purchase. >> That's for sure. That quality and that quantity of Pleasure is a GOOD >> thing and its certainly been worth the very reasonable cost to get it >> for me. >> >> jco > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
