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Big ass TVs in Shanghai
Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 11:09AM / Members only
The Biggest TV Money Can Buy
Item: 103" 1080P Panasonic HD Television TH-103PF9UK
Store: Best Buy
Cost: 880,000rmb
Not really too much explanation needs to be done for this one. I want the biggest TV available to me in Shanghai. Price is no object. I'm looking for something absurdly large and domineering, something excessive, something frightening, something that would inspire silent humility in anyone who enters my apartment.
I don't want a full-on movie screen, per se, but rather a gigantic, high definition flat screen monstrosity on which I can blast the classic Nicolas Cage / John Travolta vehicle Face/Off, anything from the collected works of Michael Bay, and the upcoming Roland Emmerich disaster movie, 2012.
I want the 103" 1080P Panasonic TH-103PF9UK.
About the size of a baby elephant, the 103"-er is the largest plasma screen television in the world, and offers a viewing experience that is best described as terror, mixed with panic, mixed with a sense of reverence to the ineffable absolutes of human potential.
In my search for big ass TVs -- or rather in my search for the biggest-assed TV in Shanghai -- I went to three places: Carrefour, Best Buy, Gome.
Carrefour, although one must commend them on the serene and prosaic shopping atmosphere they provide, doesn't have much in the way of enormous TVs. The biggest one they have in there is a 52"-er from SHARP (17,490rmb). In my research, I've discovered that the 52"-er is pretty much the middle line between BIG TVs and TVs the ownership of which indicate mental instability. Carrefour is alright for "big TVs" -- they got stuff in the 40" to 50" range -- but that's about it.
But a 52-inch plasma (about the size of fridge door) is just bush league shit; I kept looking.
Gome, one of the biggest electronics retail chains in China, is about twice as good as Carrefour in terms of stocking a variety of extreme TVs. They've got 55"-ers, 65"-ers, and 70"-ers in the western name brands (Sony, Panasonic, Phillips), as well as the same sizes by Chinese manufacturers (Blony, Blanasonic, Blillips). The 55" Sony was 41,999rmb and the 65"-er was 79,600rmb.
This brings us to discovery number two: anything above 52 inches and the price jumps disproportionately high. This further confirms the theory that a 52"-er is the ceiling for normal TVs. Apparently the demographic that covets TVs larger than 52 inches are as unrestricted by constraints of scarcity as they are the limits of practicality.
Gome is good, although shopping there is a bit baffling. There's streamers and balloons on everything, 90 store clerks walk with you everywhere, and all the display electronics all look kinda disheveled. How does a display laptop in a store get so dirty?
The biggest plasma screen TV in the world -- the 103" 1080P Panasonic TH-103PF9UK -- is at Best Buy. It's positioned right at the top of the escalator as the centrepiece to their TV section. It costs 880,000rmb. It is the future.
When you walk in front of it checking it out, all the store clerks leave you alone because they can sense that you're in the middle of a private religious moment with it. When you look up and catch eyes with them, you exchange a knowing glance at each other and a half smile -- this is probably the TV that Easy-E, Winston Churchill, and Jesus Christ are watching Different Strokes reruns on up in Heaven. -
Sean drinks milk at my parties...
Sunday, Nov 1, 2009 12:47PM / Members only
Looks like it doesn't it? Hey holla at me it's been too long! Let's have a real drink...
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Miss Wang and the kids..
Sunday, Nov 1, 2009 12:06PM / Members only
So the story starts like this...nice night in Shanghai...money is spent on good food, drinks...more drinks...drinks..a lil more drinks...a cake...drinks..(Oh BTW my new favorite food is San Gu niu wa...sick bullfrog)..drinks...ok enough drinks let's walk out of here...Miss Wang is doing the sexy model walk etc..then BAM! cute dirty beggar kids!..damn! So Miss Wang has to break the bank and be nice..drinks will do that to you....then BAM! lil kids are too happy, givin' love to Miss Wang...then they figured out the money source wasn't her and...BAM! Lil' kids givin me luv now..
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Big congrats to Kai-Li
Sunday, Nov 1, 2009 11:47AM / Members only
Seems like she's on ads everywhere I go..That Dickie's one is everywhere in Shanghai and the one with orange hair is in a million Chinese hair salons..nice job for the massive exposure.
Lil' Kai-li was a host on the Pepsi battle of the bands TV show and she had never hosted before. My friend Matt Lovett gave her a short crash course and turns out she's just a natural.
Her personality is summed up well on the 2 pics with me..if you read this Mini, have a good trip nerd, Tianyaoqiao luuuuu
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Studio Dazz, my man John Wu (Ka Fai)
Sunday, Nov 1, 2009 11:22AM / Members only
This is my friend John Wu's new studio in Shanghai. He did a pretty great job building it to that level. His equipment is even more ridiculous than the studio! He's also got a huge toy collection and he can tell you a thing or two abt sacred amulets blessed by a thousand monks...oh! he also has that slide door opening thing where you only see the eyes of the person on the other side....Anyways,If anybody has interesting projects or need a top of the line studio then ping me cuz this is the place..
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