Everybody that knows me knows I'm a gadget guy. But that passion has unfortunately never spilled over to my TV watching habits. Some day it will, but what I want costs so very much more than I can imagine spending on anything other than a small vehicle. So I settle for the cheap stuff. My two largely wothless (but prior to today functional and reliable) TVs date back to 1992 and 1995 (i.e. older than my children), and were not appealing enough to the burglars that otherwise had their way with my things back in November.
Well, of late the oldest of my TVs, a 13" tube I bought for $175 at the time, started to fritz out on me. It was a drag to have to contemplate a new TV, but I certainly got my money's worth.
So did I got out and spend a fortune on the biggest baddest TV available? Digitial cable ready? High-def? LCD?
No.
I wimped out again. I spent a whole $128 on a 20" flat screen CRT from Walmart. But hey, it's an upgrade from the tiny screen I had in my room previously. And if it lasts half the years of the last one, I'll still have gotten my money's worth.
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