Ayoob wrote:My girl and I have been window shopping for TVs recently, and it looks like plasmas have come a long way. There was a particularly nice on on sale today for $1700. 50 inches of plasma goodness. Razor sharp, deep blacks, etc.
Unfortunately, we'd have to go into debt for it and I didn't want to pay interest on a depreciating asset, so we backed off. We can pay cash for it in a couple of months so we'll just hold off til then.
Of course, we're going to need a battery array to deal with the unstable power grid in the next couple of years, so if anyone has an idea how much power a 50" plasma and a blu ray player suck down, let me know.
MadScientist wrote:ha! and I thought I was gonna get to congratulate you on a good decision. but instead this is just a deceptive orgy of consumerism at its pinnacle.
Muckingfess wrote:how much rice would $1700 buy? Beans? 9mm? .223? canning supplies?
I guess it's a matter of personal priorities, but I'd rather be eating rice and beans watching the sunsets than having a monster TV, even for just movies.
evilgenius wrote:Jesus, man, and I've been constipating over whether I should buy a 20", maybe as big as 22". I think 32" is about as big a screen as most rooms I am likely to watch a tv in can take. Any bigger and it would dominate my small spaces. If you have the distance and you can justify it against the arguments presented here I would pull the trigger, however, because you will apparently have big audiences.
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