HDTV - A Pain!

I think I will no longer watch TV on HDTV. Infact, I am considering not buying HD-DVD’s too. I am even going to cut my subscription of HDTV and buy an analog TV with a modest 19″ screen. I am just tired of HDTV. You may wonder why such a drastic step. The world over, people are moving from normal TV experience to HD TV and I want to to go back. Well, I want to go back for precisely the reasons people want to get HD TV.

The advantages of HDTV are

Picture Clarity
I don’t think I need picture clarity anymore. Watching Pamela Anderson on the early morning ‘Today’ TV show and seeing the innumerable wrinkles she has was the final nail in the coffin. She looked all old, and the clarity in the TV enabled me to look beyond her ten coats of makeup. There was fat at the wrong places and suddenly she fell from a sexy baywatch temptation to an old woman trying to hide behind makeup. All my juvenile fantasies are now lost in the sea of lines and wrinkles. The only thing for what it was worth it is lost. Who needs brains anyways! Its just overrated.

The appearance of being surreal
Now, who wants that to see how real it looks as people on Fear Factor are eating worms. The worms look too real. I need instant gratification from the TV without the ‘ewww’ feeling.

The fall of Diva’s
Suddenly, Michelle Pfeiffer’s smile looks crooked, Pamela’s bod doesnt look all that perfect, infact you can count all the breakouts and pimples of Lindsay Lohan. Julia Robert’s vein across her forehead looks like a snake. You can see how tired an actress looks inspite of appearing cheerful. How, the top 100 sexiest women no longer rate on your list anymore.

Then, you see the oldies, the analog movies and you still like Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn. They still occupy the pedestal you have kept for them. And then return back to the TV clip of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and you know how painful it is even to watch their chronic whining. And I purely attribute it to my crystal clear home theatre system which amplies the same. They need to have some artificial intelligence and have some pre-recoded nice voices.

So while I see a clip of Oprah and Dr.Phil and see what a huge crap it is. I think my HDTV and crystal clear sound from the Home Theatre system are to be blamed. I am going to go back to analog TV where most of the reality is smoothed out and the sound makes you skip few words which makes it more likeable. I hope this truly does the trick for a shallow and superficial person like me. I am deeply scarred and anguished by crystal clear TV and Sound.