Quantum TV

 


“What a loss to spend that much time with someone,

 only to find out that she's a stranger.”

                                          From Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

     Until last Saturday (more than a week after it hibernated), our TV remained in coma and wouldn’t turn on. We already made contact with a few technicians and all refused to come, like they were aware that any attempt to resurrect the appliance would just be futile—that thing is dead, died in its sleep. Our TV is almost seven years old, they say that’s like a human in his seventies.

     We first computed if buying a new TV wouldn’t ruin us financially, and after determining that it really wouldn’t (I can still buy medicines for my terrible sinusitis and occasional coughs), off we went to an appliance store. There’s a nice one located just walking distance from our house, so we barged in there wearing just our shorts and shirts (which we slept in the night before) and slippers. We are all introverts, we mostly stay at home, we only go out of the house when it’s a matter of real emergency (lol), so we can’t stand without a TV in the house. We love movies, and YouTube (I can’t clean or work in the house without listening to music, and modesty aside, we have YouTube Premium).

     And after around an hour, two salesmen were already helping us load the TV into the car. We chose an LG QNED, the salesman talked about it having Quantum Dot NanoCell technology. We didn’t understand it, I only hear quantum in Avengers movie, but it sounded nice to our ears, so we were persuaded.

     And that night (and the night after), we watched two old movies on Netflix: Meet Joe Black (about the Grim Reaper taking over a young man’s body and falling in love with a tycoon’s daughter) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (about two lovers who decide to erase their memory of each other after their breakup—and promptly regret it).

     And yes, we seem to made the right choice with the TV, the images are so clear I could almost smell what Jim Carrey had for lunch before the shoot.

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