I bought my first and, until now, only TV about 15 years ago. It was a 20″ Mitsubishi purchase from Magnolia Hi-Fi while my friend Tara was working there. I think it was about $300.
Before that I had been using the monitor for my Amiga (computer), which had some extra inputs, hooked up to a VCR. It blew up, twice, and I realized that not only was the Amiga pretty much useless at that point, but it was time to get a TV.
For the past 15 years I have had that TV. At first, I kept it because bigger TVs were too bulky. I didn’t want to make room or have to move a giant TV. Then flat panels were too expensive.
But now the stars are aligning and I got a new TV, and it was worth the wait. It’s not a super high end TV, but it’s amazing. First of all it sensed digital and HD channels direct from my cable. I thought you needed a cable box for that, but I guess not. Also it’s downloading TV guide and even automatically lists the names of the channels. Also, the channel numbers are like 9.1 and 12.25. Bizarre. So 9 will be the SD channel, and 9.1 will be the HD version of that channel. This is all so new to me.
It’s surprising to me because I consider myself to be up to date on these things, but apparently I’m not. But I don’t think anyone is. Why did I go pick up cable cards for my new Tivo HD (which is in transit) yesterday if they aren’t necessary? Or are they necessary for some channels?
Either way, I’m very happy with my new TV.