Big telly envy

Every home I visited this Christmas seems to have a big LCD television. I don't have one and don't really need one just now.

I wonder how people coped all those years ago when there was just a handful of channels and almost nothing worth watching on the TV, and when you did find something worth watching you'd sit down and watch in on the family 20-inch television set, often with really lousy reception and brutal picture quality.

Now the TVs are so big that a 40-inch LCD TV is becoming 'normal'. It kind of sends the wrong message in homes with young children that TV is perhaps the most important thing in the house.

Now the only thing is that on the back of my brother's new 40-inch Sony TV there was a PC-in connection. Now that would be cool, hooked up to one of those Mac Minis...

aaaggghh. Make it stop.