Step four: Ask friends to act out films

Step 4: "Friendships produce the brightest and most entertaining experiences life has to offer. Before you use technology to entertain you, ask your friends."

The zoetrope experience might have been a bit flat, but the next step looked more hopeful. After much cajoling, begging and in some cases bribing my friends with peanuts, they eventually agreed to sate my televisual hunger by acting out my favourite film of all time, The Lion King.

The picture quality was better than the largest TV money could buy. Forget hi-def, this was ultra-def! I could see the individual hairs on my friends' heads -- it was literally like watching real life.

Okay, so I had to wait while they changed costumes in between scenes and when I said afterwards that I wanted them to act out Star Wars there was a fight over who would be Darth Vader.

But it was all in 3D! J. Jim Jimson was starting to make a little more sense.