There are whispers this week of impending doom in the economy as the Dow drops further from the high achieved earlier in the year.  There is always a light at the end tunnel, and there surely will be one here.

As television viewers tune in for economic updates, the political race, and some good drama and escapist programming, there is something else on my mind. 
How am I going to watch TV on February 17, 2009?

I have not made the leap yet to a big flat screen TV. There was a great post in Gizmodo on how to shop for an HDTV which got me thinking and now every time I look at the 10-year old Sony trinitron 20″ CRT lots of concerns go through my head.

1. Is the new TV going to match the apartment decor?
2. Are there going to be any 30 – 40 inch sets that are white or silver made with good design?
3. Can I see the white Sony television in person to see if it is really gray and a 3D drawing like it looks an their website?
4. Where will the Tiffany vase be stored that sits on top of the TV now?
5. Is the TV industry going to function like the computer industry where you will have to replace a $1000+ device every 2-4 years?
6. What kind of antenna will work in my southern facing LES, walk-in-closet size apartment?
7. Should I just give up and buy one of the converter boxes?  Is there a “good” one?

I may just give up and buy a big computer monitor and plug it into the custom tivo.  February is pretty far from now, but the Christmas shopping season just starting.  Any ideas?

The Emmy awards were on ABC TV last night. There we tons of awards given out for the best for this year in Television Link.   I think it is great to acknowledge the hard work of the creative minds that have gone into these programs.  More awards were presented to those programs with air on the cable networks, but there was something missing.

The Internet “Television,” new media, etc. were not invited to the party.  Tina Fey of 30 Rock said her show “can be viewed on NBC.com, Hulu, iTunes, United Airlines and occasionally on actual television.”  She jests, but underneath the humor, a truth is emerging.  Joss Whedon, the ingenious writer and creative mind behind the Internet hit, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, said in an interview by Daisy Whitney, “it did teach me that there is this no man’s land between the YouTube videos and a TV series and independent movies that is not bound by restrictions of budget or length of structure or genre. It is just bound by if you have the material to make it. And you can put it out there, and if more people start doing that, it will become more common, the way YouTube has become a daily exercise for people to troll through and look through. This is one foot on the moon, but soon we will have a colony of moonpeople and then there will be a colony of doctors on the moon, too.” Link

What does this mean for the Emmys?  Will they be inclusive or will web content creators be grouped together with the other Webby Awards?  Who knows, but we can lean forward and see.