TV - You've Come A Long Way Baby

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It is amazing where TV has gone where it is going (who knows). There are so many types and sizes now days. We saw an ad for one that is truly the size of an entire wall (the size most of us peons have) that is supposed to come out sometime this year. If you are really rich or have a really high ceiling in a really big room I guess you could call this a truly fantastic media room. However, most of us would not be able to afford it even when it does hit the market. The ultra rich market!!

We had a 32" TV, our very first new one that we bought about six years ago (my husband had been a TV repairman for years and we always had a used TV that someone didn't want to have fixed, so he fixed it and brought it home). It was quite an event to get this new TV and of course it didn't work when we got it home and plugged it in. Pure frustration, because he knew what the problem was right away and because we live in the mountains and it was over an hour to take it back to where we bought it, he called for service. They sent a guy out and because it was exactly what Fred thought it was they said we needed to return it to the store and have them exchange it because it was a defective set. So we took that long trip back to the store, exchanged it, went home and set it up again. This thing weighed a ton.

Well shock of shocks, in December for our Christmas present to ourselves he got a deal on a 42" flat screen, LSD HD TV. WHOA! That is a big sucker, is much thinner than the old 32" and weighs only about half of what the old one did. In 34 years of marriage our 2nd new TV!!!! Yippee!!

A chuckle for you. In February, we had a 3 day power outage and he was having TV withdrawals. He remembered that we had a little B&W battery TV, so he pulled it out so he could watch something (we have satellite regularly) and there was only one channel that came in and he had to hold it on his lap to be able to see anything because it was so small. He practically threw a party when the power came back on and he could watch the Big TV again, with a multitude of channels to choose from.

Well I'll let it go for now, but next time i'll talk about TV add on's, etc.

Enjoy your day!