It’s been a long time between drinks for us and mainstream Televisions …

There was a glorious epoch in the early 2000s where we had on display simultaneously Plasma Televisions from Pioneer, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, and Marantz along with the first Generation Sharp Aquos consumer LCD panels.

When I unlocked the shop in the morning after they had been left on at night a blast of heated ozone laden air would surge by me onto Lygon St. These Plasma TVs were power hungry high voltage devices and vengefully dissipated their waste heat into the confined space of our store.

The Dolby Atmos room was fired up for the first time this evening.

It was like starting an unsilenced Rolls Royce Merlin engine in the basement flat of an apartment block ...

Sony have done a delightfully cheesy Australia centric advertising campaign for their new $8499 65 inch Television that features the wish fulfilment of an outback girl getting an ice cream van finally to her isolated property via the magic of 4K resolution.

When a 100 year old Japanese giant puts out a statement saying that it has "material doubts" about it's ability to survive one is reminded of the Emperor Hirohito telling his countrymen to endure the unendurable ...

Credited with being the inventor of the Compact Disc Norio Ohga died recently aged 81.
Mr Ohga presided over Sony during a period of intense technological and market place change.