Signs of the Times

Posted by Ami-chan on September 2, 2008

I think it’s funny how televisions are often a sign of status. I know when we lived in England we were considered wealthy because we had three TVs. Never mind one of them was ten years old and the others were tiny little portables, one of which was my mothers. When we moved out that tiny little portable was our only television.

In our house right now we have four televisions, if we were running by the English standards I grew up with that would be filthy richness, except we didn’t pay for most of them. One came with the house, one is my parents old television that they gifted us with. The one I actually paid for is a TV/VCR combo that I got while I was in college, through layaway. It was $225 from Walmart. The fourth is our room mates.

One of our friends was making jokes about bringing it downstairs and hooking it into the cable so that while one of us was playing video games on the main TV someone else could be watching television, still really the four televisions, I can’t say that they’d be considered a status symbol right now because they’re not HDTV, they’re just regular old boring basic televisions. We’re ready for the HD switch because we have digital cable, but it’s not high definition.

Yet somehow we’ll survive I expect. I survived the prehistoric period of no remotes. I can survive without HD.