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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
a plasma television
However, if there's someone out there who can convince me as to why exactly any of these things are so indispensable and cool and why I absolutely will be better off with one, I'll take it under advisement.
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I bought one of these a month or so ago. Then upgraded my accompanying sound setup. Is it indispensable? Of course not. Is it cool? Depends what you're into.
I love music and sound. Been a musician since I was 8 years old. I love to get lost in a good recording (and also love to get lost playing music as well). I can hear the difference between a $100 pair of speakers and a $1000 pair of speakers. It gives me great pleasure to sit and listen to music that I love presented with a big soundstage and great detail. To me, that is cool. So I spend a chunk of money to chase what I think the music should sound like.
Over the past few years I've gotten more into video and cinema, and lately it has become part of my job(s). As such I've been doing the classic cinema school student activity of watching a lot of movies. I love analog. I love film. But I can't buy 35mm prints of movies and theaters aren't showing the films I want to see. So a plasma with a good upconverting dvd player allows me to get a much better "filmic" experience. I can see the movie in the right aspect ratio, the colors are rich, I can see the detail that the director saw, etc. To me, that is cool. So I spend a chunk of money to chase what I think the film should look like (and sound like, but that is covered by the above chasing).
No sales pitch. You either care about this stuff or you don't. There is no right or wrong. I don't have a garage full of nice tools, nor do I have a closet full of nice clothes and shoes. Or a kitchen full of nice cooking stuff. Or expensive furniture. Just clean functional stuff, a really nice sound/video setup, musical instruments and studio setup. Horses for courses, and different strokes...