joining us from pa low al to is farhad manjoo. you have a 42 inch flat screen at home and you're bored. >> yes i've had this tv for four years now and you know, i've looked around like i do for all other gadgets for better things but there really isn't anything better than my 42 inch tv. they have this huge innovation about 10, 15 years ago with the lcd panels and ever since then what happened is they've gotten cheaper and just better at producing them and they haven't come up with a new idea that we should pay for. >> there are some new ideas as you note in your piece, curved screens now are the hot thing, 3-d, ultrasuper high definition. you weren't excited about any of those? >> yes, so the curved screen thing to me is really silly. i have no idea why i'd want to watch a tv that kind of bends a little bit on the sides. it doesn't make any sense to me at all but it's just one of those instances where like tv makers can do that, there's new innovations that allow them to curve glass in a way they can do it at high production but