[opendtv] Re: 20050803 Wolfsson's Wednesday Words (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:00:02 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> Sunday he took my now 26 year old son to the mall
> to get a haircut. Some of his friends opted to
> tag along, and they decided to stay in the car to
> play games; they kept the car running so that the AC
> would work. When they got back to the house they
> kept playing and running the AC. My father-in-law
> was VERY upset because they burned up a quarter tank
> of gas...
>
> Why is it Bert, and you are not alone in this, that
> you automatically leap to the conclusion that an
> in-car display is going to be used by the driver?
> The modern car has become a second living room for
> people on the move, complete with leather sofas...
I don't leap to any such conclusions, of course. Fact
is, nothing precludes the stand-alone box from being
used in the front seat, and that particular blurb I
quoted was strangely worded.
Aside from that,
1. Your son's friends should be taught something
about global warming and flagrant waste of natural
resources, not to mention torture of machinery, and
2. Playing games or DVDs in a vehicle is not exactly
technically challenging, so it's not something that
appeals to me.
3. Also, I would think that someone actually driving
the vehicle would be more likely to want to watch
live TV than to want to watch a DVD he can play back
any old time. That was, after all, the topic of the
blurb I had quoted.
Bert
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