Wide screen: fat people
December 7th 2008 07:03
For many years we had a TV stand that had been the original wooden casing for one of our earlier TVs. It must have been solidly built, since, once we’d removed the TV that no longer worked, we used to put later models on top of it (one at a time, of course) and use the area below (into which a couple of shelves had been placed) for videos.
In fact, I think that old stand is still around somewhere, no doubt being used for books, or ornaments or something.
We recently bought a TV stand that appears to be solid wood. In fact, it’s pretty light, but at least our current (heavy) TV sits on it without any sign of creaking or groaning on the part of the stand. This one has a couple of little doors at the bottom, where you’re supposed to store DVDs or other paraphernalia. And best of all, it has castors, so the TV can be moved from room to room if necessary. The DVD player sits on top (of the TV) and the video player (which suddenly refused to work last time we tried it) is in a special place between the cupboard and the TV area.
But now, with the advent of the wide-screen TV, the stands have become wider too. So wide in fact, that to have one in our living room would require us to remove a good deal of the furniture. (I personally find wide-screen TV a bit of a mixed blessing: an awful lot of people appear to be very fat when viewed on these, because no one has got around to adjusting the proportions of the picture; perhaps this is where the great concern about obesity has come from?)
The other alternative is to have a special viewing room, as one of my nephews in England has. One wall is given over to the television screen. The only other piece of furniture is a large couch (see what I said above). It’s a kind of mini-theatre – in fact, the screen is as big as one of those in the Metro theatre here in Dunedin. At the Metro, there are two cinemas. The second has ten seats (ten uncomfortable seats, I might add). The screen is bunged on the wall, and the ‘film’ is run via a DVD projector. At least my nephew’s ‘cinema’ is free.
In fact, I think that old stand is still around somewhere, no doubt being used for books, or ornaments or something.
We recently bought a TV stand that appears to be solid wood. In fact, it’s pretty light, but at least our current (heavy) TV sits on it without any sign of creaking or groaning on the part of the stand. This one has a couple of little doors at the bottom, where you’re supposed to store DVDs or other paraphernalia. And best of all, it has castors, so the TV can be moved from room to room if necessary. The DVD player sits on top (of the TV) and the video player (which suddenly refused to work last time we tried it) is in a special place between the cupboard and the TV area.
The other alternative is to have a special viewing room, as one of my nephews in England has. One wall is given over to the television screen. The only other piece of furniture is a large couch (see what I said above). It’s a kind of mini-theatre – in fact, the screen is as big as one of those in the Metro theatre here in Dunedin. At the Metro, there are two cinemas. The second has ten seats (ten uncomfortable seats, I might add). The screen is bunged on the wall, and the ‘film’ is run via a DVD projector. At least my nephew’s ‘cinema’ is free.
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