Oh, God. The latest "Thneed" - Plasma TV's now come in 103" size.

Because , you know, we all really need mega-gigantor screens taking up a whole wall of the living room so we can BLAST THE FUCK OUT OF THE HOME THEATER while watching some mind-rotting, exploding car chase DVD, or even better, to see every fucking clogged pore on Bill'O'Lielly's pustule-encrusted face on the factor.

Christ, don't people every get sick of fucking CONSUMING?

:mad:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060105/tc_afp/japantechnologycompanymatsushita_060105123147


Panasonic maker develops world's biggest plasma TV
Thu Jan 5, 7:31 AM ET
TOKYO (AFP) - The Japanese maker of the Panasonic brand said it had developed the world's largest plasma-panel television set with a 103-inch (2.6 meter) screen.


Matsushita Electric Industrial said on Thursday, it had overcome technical difficulties posed by making large plasma screens to develop a prototype 2.3 meters wide and 1.3 meters high.

Until now 102-inch plasma televisions developed by two South Korean companies were the biggest in the world.

Suck on that, Koreans! WIth your little punk-ass 102" set! Panasonic PWNED YOU!

I said.."You know, TVs should be like giant picture frames hung on walls instead of in boxes on the floor"..

Someone stole my idea :)

Where people don't have a big screen TV on a wall, the entire wall is the TV screen. What's more, many people have two, three or even all four walls made into these screens. They run every waking minute, they are interactive, and the average person feels lost if they are away from their "wall" for even a few minutes.

And of course, books are outlawed. Scary world. :scared:

You seem way too angry about this. Don't buy it if you don't want it. Should we all still be on Q-Link or BBS boards using a Commodore 64? Or should we have advanced that far?

Just once I'd like to read "Panasonic has stopped its plans for production of a 103" set because of weak consumer demand for SUCH A WASTEFUL PIECE OF CRAP.

I realize I am not the norm on this. We have only one 29" set in our house (and I consider that to be a very big set) and we limit our viewing.

My point is bout the voracity of the consumer, whose appetite for bigger and bigger screens to watch dreck like "Friends" on seems to be insatiable.

A few years ago when I lived in a cheap apartment complex in Florida, where the rents was about $600/mo. I saw one family bringing one of those monsters into their unit. It just amazes me that people who cannot even afford to buy a decent home would spend 1 or 2 thousand on one of these behemoths (on credit, no doubt).

Don't mind me. I'm obviously on the wrong side of progress and the American way on this.

In a few years, slum-dwellers will be signing themselves into servitude to buy some 500-inch scroll TV that unrolls to cover a whole wall. And the programming will be every bit as crapola as today.

Imagine if Americans would spend that kind of money on QUALITY art, literature, or furnishings for their home, rather than flimsy tacky junk from Wal-Mart & Target.

Oh forget it. Go out and buy one. A Thneed is a thing which everyone, everyone, everyone needs.

I'm not quite so angry as you, but rampant consumerism/dollarism (that is, who spends the most on their 'thneeds', as you call them) drives me crazy. We, like you, have one small TV, lots of books, and a couple computers. We spent quite a while with no TV at all (other than to watch videos). Try explaining that one... "What do you mean, you don't watch TV?" It probably only took 15 repetitions per person to sink in :)

I don't know if there's a breaking point for all of this, but it makes you wonder.

It's my favorite Dr. Suess book, and one I read to my kiddies often...



Actually, you can read the whole thing online here.

http://www.education.umd.edu/EDCI/edci385/Projects101/Rutkowski/activity.html

It did sound familiar, but I couldn't place it... thanks for the reminder! :)

it's the general trend. McMansions, 100 inch tvs, bigger cars, etc. it's just hte trend he's angry about, i think.

Beauty and quality being replaced by quantity.

It also struck me as hilarious that Matsushita is trumpeting this as a major achievement because their set is a whopping not quite 1% larger than their Korean competitor's.

I mean, who would really notice the freaking difference?

Chairman Mao, intercede with us in prayer! Tractors! Progress! Peanuts!

:wow:

I think I'll keep it, thank you.

Just kidding--I don't watch TV all that much, and all I have at the moment is a little 13" TV that I mostly watch DVDs and play videogames on. I am getting a bigger TV in the not-to-distant future, though.

There's not a wall in my whole house that would hold even one of them, but I need two. With stands.

I also need two flight cases, a rolling rack with a broadcast-grade DVD player, a broadcast-grade VCR and a Crown amplifier in it, a good video camera, an oak podium, some Turbosound speakers and a Sprinter van to haul all that shit around in. This is because I'm going to rent them out for events.

Use your imagination, people. This is NOT a device for the home, although some will wind up in homes. This is an industrial product, and I'm going to take a wild stab and guess that the device is in the Panasonic AG series, which is Panasonic's pro line. It's for training rooms, boardrooms, university classrooms, cruise ships, food courts in malls, trade show displays, that kind of thing. It's a substitute for a Barco projector.

I have a 20" TV in my room that barely gets any use at all.

And when I DO watch, I really only watch a couple of programs on Comedy Central and HBO, and that's only when shows have new episodes.

The rest of the time, I watch TV shows on complete season DVDs, and those are great because you dont have to watch commercials.

I bought a 20" to better view widescreen DVD's. Any larger would be too difficult to haul in and out of the closet. Because that's where it sits until I want to view a film. When it's over, everything is unplugged and stored away again.

There are too many books to read. I get my news via shortwave radio and the Internet(s).

That ought to confirm my dog cage in Guantanamo for being flagrantly unpatriotic.

IIRC, there are 12 foot by 6.75 foot LCD screens. Movie screen aspect ratio (16:9) and gigantic. I think they are 10's of thousands of dollars.
The Professor

That I really don't understand the differences between plasma and LCD screens at all...