Are you familiar with Woot.com, the daily sale website where they have one item for sale that day only. I've bought several things from it and enjoy the copy writing they have each day for that day's special. Well, today they wrote this copy in support of a Denon 5.1 receiver they're pushing. I thought you might enjoy how our industry is perceived by others...
Adventures In Audio
You guys, turn off your smartphones and portable media players for a second. This is totally going to blow your minds.
So you know how we were messing with my Denon 5.1 Channel A/V Receiver the other day and trying to decide which high-definition device we were going to enjoy? Okay, sure, that’s like every day, but just listen to me for a second. This was the time you dudes kept pressing the four Quick Select buttons and saying stuff like “I wanna play video games and get lost in some Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio sound” and “But I wanna enjoy the sweet, sweet 3D video signals the Blu-ray player transmits to the receiver via HDMI.” Yeah, I know we do that all the time, too, but this time one of you accidentally hit the Source button.
Yeah, dudes, THAT day. The Day of The Static. Totally freaked us out so bad we had to unplug the receiver and Tom had to change his shorts, remember? Well, I did a little research and it turns out that wasn’t just some glitch. In fact, it’s an actual feature, just like the front-side stereo mini jack for portable media players.
It’s called the “Tuner.” TOO-NER. Yeah, and what it does is pretty crazy. Do you guys remember radio at all? Right, that was the thing that was kind of like Shuffle mode on your iPod, but with ads and some sad sack trying to sound hip and relevant every 15 minutes. Turns out it still exists! And the “Tuner” function lets you “tune in” to those old broadcasting dinosaurs whenever you want! In fact, I looked in the box the receiver came in and there’s totally a FM Indoor Antenna AND an AM Loop Antenna, too! It was traveling back in time, seriously.
Anyway, I went ahead and found some “stations” to listen to tonight. Check this out. Hear that? That’s right, Paul, it’s a real live deejay! I couldn’t believe that was something people still aspired to be either. If you listen closely, you can almost hear the regret he feels over his career choice.
Now you know how the dinosaurs felt.
Adventures In Audio
You guys, turn off your smartphones and portable media players for a second. This is totally going to blow your minds.
So you know how we were messing with my Denon 5.1 Channel A/V Receiver the other day and trying to decide which high-definition device we were going to enjoy? Okay, sure, that’s like every day, but just listen to me for a second. This was the time you dudes kept pressing the four Quick Select buttons and saying stuff like “I wanna play video games and get lost in some Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio sound” and “But I wanna enjoy the sweet, sweet 3D video signals the Blu-ray player transmits to the receiver via HDMI.” Yeah, I know we do that all the time, too, but this time one of you accidentally hit the Source button.
Yeah, dudes, THAT day. The Day of The Static. Totally freaked us out so bad we had to unplug the receiver and Tom had to change his shorts, remember? Well, I did a little research and it turns out that wasn’t just some glitch. In fact, it’s an actual feature, just like the front-side stereo mini jack for portable media players.
It’s called the “Tuner.” TOO-NER. Yeah, and what it does is pretty crazy. Do you guys remember radio at all? Right, that was the thing that was kind of like Shuffle mode on your iPod, but with ads and some sad sack trying to sound hip and relevant every 15 minutes. Turns out it still exists! And the “Tuner” function lets you “tune in” to those old broadcasting dinosaurs whenever you want! In fact, I looked in the box the receiver came in and there’s totally a FM Indoor Antenna AND an AM Loop Antenna, too! It was traveling back in time, seriously.
Anyway, I went ahead and found some “stations” to listen to tonight. Check this out. Hear that? That’s right, Paul, it’s a real live deejay! I couldn’t believe that was something people still aspired to be either. If you listen closely, you can almost hear the regret he feels over his career choice.
Now you know how the dinosaurs felt.
