Jun 17 2008
Yay Green!
Recently our HD Television went on the fritz.
It was actually kind of scary. I was getting the kids ready for school, the TV was on in the living room where I’d been watching “Malcolm in the Middle”, when suddenly it smelled like cigarettes. Being the paranoid freak that I am, I immediately assumed an axe wielding maniac was taking refuge somewhere in my house, and of course lighting up where I couldn’t see him.
Eventually reason took over and I figured something had to be on fire. The living room was hazy but nothing was actually burning. We narrowed it down to the TV with our highly trained nostrils and promptly unplugged the thing, then called Brandsmart since the friggin Television is less than six months old. A week later, the technician came and told us our projection TV was broken. Duh. It had fried the color green, literally charred itself, so that now the entire picture consisted of a blinding magenta that my kids didn’t have any qualms with. So they watched it that way, until a month later when the tech reappeared with all new guts for our TV.
Why they didn’t just give us a new one, I’ll never know, since the parts reportedly cost as much as our TV brand new. But either way, it’s fixed and green never looked so pretty.
