PIP-free tv?

over lunch today JAB told me about the TWO flat-screen TVs he picked up on black friday…

…told him about some of the deals i’d been looking at on amazon (turns out that’s the gift card i get through chase, not best buy). shane’s been looking around a bit as have a couple other friends. we all talk size, 1080p vs. 720p, lcd vs. led vs. plasma, etc, etc, etc. you know what i don’t hear ANYBODY bring up now that was a BIG topic last time i bought TVs in the late ’90s?

Picture In fucking Picture.

what the fuck ever happened to that?

remember when every TV just HAD to have that shit? how many of you people have it on your current TVs? i know BOTH of mine have it…know how many times i’ve used it in the last year? five years? fuck me – TEN years?

exactly…if ever there was proof to the women of the world that men will buy something techie just to fucking have it even though it’s useless as all fuck it’s picture in fucking picture. now, with computer technology being where it is, if you happen to use your tv as your monitor (which, if your a net porn connoisseur, and your tv is larger than your monitor, you REALLY should be) then PIP can be handy if it’ll do that 50/50 split thang.

i remember using it on the sony in the den ’cause you could put the audio from the smaller picture if you wanted to, so i’d have video golf on with the spurs game in the little window but the audio coming from the game. that was cool. but that was also 1997 – and before jen’s dog duke destroyed my remote (and copper destroyed the $50 replacement, hence replaced with a $20 universal – which doesn’t do all the PIP extra stuff like that).

so, what’s gonna be the next PIP for this generation? you know – where it’s something we fucking INSIST our new ones have, but then we never use? any guesses?

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