Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: HSN, TV, Wii, Sports, Accessory | Themes: Home Theater, Digital Entertainment
The Home Shopping Network joins the exclusive group of Wii-owners who've broken their telly with the console's controller.
I don't know about you guys, but I love when people mess up on live television. It's so much fun to watch them try and claw their way back from the sheer embarrassment of saying or doing something they shouldn't. However, watching precious electronics meet their demise on live television? Not so cool, my friends.
The video below depicts a type of Wiimote accident that we became all too familiar with when the console first launched. All those broken TVs taught us an important lesson: failing to tighten the safety strap (or failing to use it at all) can end in tears. Prevent pricey accidents by practicing safe Wii-ing.
Today the kind folks at the HSN are here to teach us another lesson: If you're using Wiimote accessories, make sure they're correctly attached. It's a very expensive mistake to make, gentlemen.
Skip to 5:00 to watch the action.
(Via Joystiq)
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It would have been funnier if the Price Drop would have dropped lower after that...
This deserves one big LOL. Don't they watch Youtube videos?
retard!!!
WTF I watched all 9 minutes that now I feel was a waist of time because there was no broken TV...wtf m8
NVM i accidentally skipped it ...
That TV is going in the discount bin......
Look how the guy stands in from of the broken spot on the TV to hide the fact that the television was ruined. The cost of a new TV kinda makes their deal seem a little less hot. No one should buy from this channel.
AWESOME!!!!! "and there goes the tennis racket..." Yep, and there goes your TV too.
For everyone that doesn't want to watch the whole thing he breaks the TV at about 5:08
Somebody should make a Wiidiot TV Protection Screen...To protect your expensive LCD or Plasma TV from idiots!
Epic fail!!
They should have used a OLED screen
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/s [...] ,8875.html
lol, that tennis racket extension is a horrendous idea. Whoever invented it must be waging war against expensive televisions.
Somebody should make a Wiidiot TV Protection Screen...To protect your expensive LCD or Plasma TV from idiots!
Just mount a temp Acrylic sheet in front of the TV.
Watching them demo the Wii is absolutely brutal.
Also, who in their right mind would buy a Wii + 15 "accessories" for 329.90???! Basically, they are charging 130.90 for a bunch a plastic Wii accessories since the Wii itself only costs 199...ridiculous!!
Im sorry, but as far as HSN on-air screw ups, this doesnt beat the guy falling off the ladder..
Yep, that was the most amazing thing to me; that people would actually pay $330 for that crap!
hey it's on a shopping channel of coarse they are going to make you pay out the @$$ for stuff you can get cheaper anywhere else.
it pains me to watch these sopping channel things anyway. who the heck can talk about an item non-stop for 1-2 hours. i mean really
BTW, he wears the strap the entire time. The tennis attachment flies off the wiimote and smashes the tv, but the wiimote never leaves his hand.
Bowling? Oh yeah, I'm sold on the Wii.
"Well we could go bowling... or we could just hang ourselves?" -Jim Gaffigan
I personally like the HSN guy that stabbed himself testing the Katana.
lol that was awesome, but that guy is a pro. He barely even flinches and keeps on selling the product like nothing happened. With him standing in front of the tv the old ladies and middle aged house wives who are buying these prolly didn't even notice the tv is ruined. lol
HSN ftl lol
lol i knew it would be a serve. noobs to using wii always swing WAY harder and with a full range of motion than you need to. just a flick of the wrist is all it takes. probably wouldnt have sent the racket flying either.
Why not have a link that skips directly to that point? You can do that with YouTube links ya know?
Im sorry, but as far as HSN on-air screw ups, this doesnt beat the guy falling off the ladder..
I think the guy that is showing how strong a sword is and it stabbing him is even funnier "Oh that got me good" lol
On a scale of 1-10 for live on the air blunders I give this one a 7 lol
Another great one is the guy with the priceless one of a kind recording... lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqZ [...] re=related
I think the guy that is showing how strong a sword is and it stabbing him is even funnier "Oh that got me good" lol On a scale of 1-10 for live on the air blunders I give this one a 7 lol Another great one is the guy with the priceless one of a kind recording... lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqZ [...] re=related
Ouch lol, that -was- one of a kind. He's *done* with that, lol.
That's what happens when you use cheap, third party accessories! Can you imagine the moron who goes out to Best Buy and buys the generic crap to save $10 and goes home and ruins his/her $1500 LCD TV! As you just saw in this video, it happens!
Pwnt.
LOL. That is so friggin awesome! Betcha LG will be watching that TV coming back to their warehouse as "DOA". LOL.
bwhaaaaaaaa........now really $330 dollars!!!! That means a person would be paying $100 dollars on those accessories..what a ripoff.
And what does the $130 in accessories actually DO?
Besides FLY off the wii-remoite?
Okay, the Steering wheel makes sense. But who really needs to make their wiis look like midget tennis rackets, base-ball clubs or whatever?
Make a useful Wii Accessory worth talking about...
The Wii-dildo.