After working my ass off in my new room I decided to treat myself to no less than 3 rented DVD-'s. Huddled up in pillows, a big glass of red wine and a couple pieces of exquisite old cheese within reach, I happily turned on the first movie.
The menu started playing, with a few lags and jolts. Already planning my speech about scratched discs for the guy at the rental store (or whatever such a place is called) I tried selecting the "start movie"-option.
Nothing happened, the screen blinked and then with a 'POFF' it went black. Only a whiny beeping sound came from the speakers and soon a distinct smell of burning plastic reached my pillowy bunker across the room. Wide-eyed I ran to turn it off, for the red stand-by LED was still burning and smoke started billowing out the top.
So... another TV bites the dust! And all I did was watch a movie. I'm done with TV-'s, really I am. It was my most treasured pastime for half my life, but no more.

R.I.P. TV

Now where do I leave this 100 kilo corpse? (It is huge...)

posted by Marian @ 9:42 PM 3 comments

At 1:57 PM,  Anonymous said...

That sucks! Guess you'll have to watch them on your computer now? Anyway, how's the project going? I'm really curious.