Do all these high def tv displays have a chart that outlines the hours of your life that are robbed from you sitting in front of “high Def” tv shows?
Truthfully, if you pay multiple thousands for a theater room set up don’t you feel obligated to then use it? If you figure the hourly rate you are worth and the cost of deepening relationships with your family is it really financially worth it?
LOL! That’s why I don’t already have one!
The main TV is a 13 year old, heavy 32” Toshiba CRT that I paid around $370 for at the time and thought that was too much for a TV!
And to be quite frank, I don’t watch much TV. I’m not even much of a sports watcher. (Well, I am a coach and my daughter plays on my team but neither of us watch it much on TV) I would be nonchalant if the cable TV went out for a day or so (though I would miss the occasional FoxNews viewing and my daughter would be upset without the kids networks) but no big deal. But if the high speed internet access went down, well, that would be grounds for angry calls within 15 minutes! :-)
Since my wife and another child are disabled, we don’t get out more than twice a year. I was watching the movie “Master and Commander” on DVD with her last night on one of those lucky nights when neither of us fell asleep in front of the TV after the kids were in bed. I have the wide screen version. And though it was enjoyable, I was thinking what it would be like to have an actual wide-screen TV with one of those DVD players that upscales the image for High Def.
Also, my daughter and I like to play video games together. It would be cool to have a TV that could handle the HD output from the XBOX 360 when playing with a split screen. Usually my wife consigns us to the old 19” basement TV for such game play (can you imagine!) but even if we don’t play upstairs that much, at least we’ll have a 32” screen downstairs!
And someday, when I don’t have the weight of the world pressing on my shoulders, I would like to see what it’s like to sit back, watch a HD football game from start to finish with the only disturbance being the replacement of my empty beer with a new one!