I’m a tech crazy. I always have been and I assume that I probably always will be. While I’m sure there is an awesome Dr. Phil-esque reason behind my tech addiction issues, I really don’t care what they are – I’ll continue to obtain the latest and greatest crap whether I need it or not.

The first step is admitting you have a problem, right?

The second step is denial.

I’m stuck at step two for life.

Then why can’t I get myself to pull the trigger on buying a new television?

I’ve been using the same über-shitty 37″ 743lb. ViewSonic LCD television for about 6 years now; the ViewSonic LCD having replaced a phenomenally expensive 1st generation Plasma – remember when they were thousands and thousands of dollars? Yeah, one of those. Anyway, my television is dated, washed out, heavy, cumbersome, and has felt like it’s near death for at least 3 years now. Worse, it has a rather large “splotch” of fucked up pixels on it that are getting harder to ignore all the time – I actually look for the splotch on other televisions because I obsess about it so much.

But do I buy a new television? No.

I bought a 64GB 4G LTE iPad for $829. I bought a 32GB iPad mini for $429. I’ve bought 3 iPhones in the past 8 months. I own a $3,749 Retina MacBook Pro (upgraded obviously) with matching dual Apple displays. Xbox? Got one. Blu ray? Got that too. Kindle Fire? I upgraded to the HD model. Video camera? Top of the line Sony.

But do I buy a fucking television? No.

I can’t go into a store that sells televisions without spending at least 5-10 minutes staring at them. I shop Amazon and Best Buy online, comparing deals and reading reviews. I’m a regular on at least a half dozen home theater forums, educating and re-educating myself on everything fancy and new.

But do I buy a fucking television? No.

Why?

Honestly, I’m not 100% sure. I think it might be a combination of things:

1. I can’t make money off of a television and therefore it’s much harder for me to justify the expense vs. a computer or something that might help me with my work.

2. Televisions fucking suck. That’s right, they fucking suck. For all of the supposedly “great new technologies” involved, I’m just not particularly impressed. Nothing has made me say “wow, I gotta go get me one of those! NOW!” in the TV marketplace since my first Plasma. Yes, picture quality and color reproduction have managed to get incrementally better, but at a snail’s pace. Televisions are thinner and lighter but it’s not like I’m going to be taking it with me on the damn bus.

Televisions bore me, even though I watch one nearly every day.

As I’m writing this I have another 3 browser tabs open, each one sitting idly on a TV that I know I’m ultimately not going to buy. I want one, yes, but I just don’t care enough to get one. I’d have to unplug an HDMI cable and a power cord and probably dust off a TV stand. It might take a whole 10 minutes of my life.

And I’m so unexcited about televisions when compared to other tech gadgets that I just can’t justify that 10 minutes.

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