Oooohhh... HDTV

I recently bought a device called the Pinnacle PCTV-HD Pro. It's a USB stick that you attach to your computer, and an antenna or cable to the other side of the stick and you can watch TV on your laptop. Not just any TV, HIGH DEFINITION TV.

I've been avoiding HDTV for a few years. It was too expensive. WAY too expensive. Well, last night I watched the last game of the NBA finals on a laptop - in high def. First, I'm not a basketball fan. You could go so far as saying that I dislike basketball. The ONLY reason I watched was not that San Antonio was playing and they are a semi-home-team for Austin, but because it was the only feed on that was HD at the time. (Doctor Who was on PBS, but in standard def. Yech.) I mean, why watch something that is cerebral, that I love, nicely acted by Christopher Eccleston, when I could watch a bunch of sweaty mans run back and forth a wooden floor chasing an orange ball.

I am now totally engrossed in HDTV. As Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell in the movie Wayne's World said, "It will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine." I'm only afraid that now HD will become my Moby Dick, my holy grail, my obsession.

First off, I have to build a mental justification model for the upgrade. My experience over the last 20 years in the IT industry gives me great comparison models to use. "It's like EGA versus VGA" and "It's going to reduce eye strain" (That one is used to justify the purchase of LCD monitors to replace CRTs.)

I suppose that since my truck will be paid off next month that I cannot allow myself to spend the $481 per month that I'm not paying for it on things like, oh I don't know, paying off credit card debt, and instead will go into debt for a new TV and an upgrade to DISH network.

Well, I gotta save this post now and go check the Circuit City and Best Buy webpages.