With the large wide screen TVs being expensive, is it feasible to get a 2nd set  

When our sons were with us, they had their separate Tv sets, so what happened was that if I did not like what was on the living room Tv, I could watch one of theirs while they were at work, but that was before we bought the HD tV and by that time they had moved out. And we went through the whole bit of the Tv burning green and then buying another. I do not know how many we went through since we were first married in the 1970s.

FIVE?! Yowza! I remember when you started collecting CATS...can I expect someday to hear you have 30 or so TVs TOO? ROTFLOL!

Reminds me of that old song, "57 Channels & Nothing's On!"

Maggiepie

We now just have three, and only two are working and we just watch the big Tv in the living room. But my husband bought our sons, Tv sets for themselves, and we gave our old DVd to our younger son. Now all we have to do is get rid of that smaller Tv set and get a small LCD HD tV for the guest room, but that entails changing the big dish out in our backyard so it only gets digital Canadian Tv. And I do want to get the USA channel and the Science Fiction channel, but we cannot because the evil CRTC here in Canada will not let us order it.

I'm sorry you can't get U.S. tv or the SF channel. Evil Canadian control....

Up to Maggiepie - we have one in both roomie's rooms, one in the front room, one in the office and an extra one that we had gotten with the nephew stayed for a while so he could have a tv in his room. Not quite sure where that one is.

We got it on the big dish but my husband decided to go digital and we get the Space channel that is not that good and it is not in high def format yet.

Our cable system says we don't need to convert tvs, so we're avoiding it as long as we can!

The only ones needed to convert are the ones with the antennas. Those of us with dishes and cable, do not have to worry.

That's what they are telling us, but I recently saw someone trying a scare tactic on TV - so, so far anyway, I'm believing what my cable company is telling me.

We get those fearmongers on Tv, but when you go to our cable company, you can pick up a box. The trouble is that now there will be no free tv. I mean even the local channels will cost you. But you will have to pay for the basic channels. I do wonder whether those with antennas would have to use their dvds or vhs. So they have a choice either convert or get ready to buy dvds of their favorite shows when the season ends.

We have boxs for the TVs, already. I'll worry about what happens when it happens.

I guess if you have an HDTV you can still get transmitted stations off the air - tho the reception is so bad I've had cable since the late 70's.

That is when we got cable. Before that we had a big dish, still got it, but it is just a back yard fixture.

I have seen many of those yard "decorations" out in the country.

We do not have the LCD one we can hang on the wall, but if we could afford a smaller one for the guest room, it would be nice. We just got a regular lcd hd tv in the living room and we just got the lamp inside replace (it was a rear projection one) and boy I hated changing it. But with Christmas coming up, it is going to be a bit expensive so we might not get it and we were debating about getting a blue ray player.

I have a friend who USED to have one of those. I recall it had this big ugly box attached to the ceiling, like a spider in a web, looming heavily over our heads. The couch facing it let us sit 4 abreast, but the folks at either end had to lean their heads toward the middle of the couch (cozy.../o) to see the big screen CLEARLY, since the picture whited out at the edge the further you got from dead center perspective.

Still, hey, it was easy enough to SEE when you WERE in the middle...i.e., no squinting to see a small screen & trying to make out itty details....

Haven't seen my friend's apartment for ages (she's in Houston--I'm in Austin), so I've no idea what she has, or how many, now. But knowing her, I'm guessing she has several now, & I'm sure they're all S.O.T.A.--as the projection thingamajigger was when she bought IT.

Maggiepie

We got a projection tv down in the basement, the large screen Tv that is unplugged and all the stuff to work it is in the spare bedroom. Yes we got it before the wide screen tvs came out, yes that is us, we got beta and then the vhs came out and we got the hd dvd player and then blue ray came out. It does not matter when, soon after we get a new format it goes kerplunk!

That is the same with us. When our lamp in the Tv in ours went off, we were frantically looking for the manual and then the phonebook to find the nearest distributor who was in Outer Mongolia, translation, half way across the city. Luckily we found one, and then we had to unscrew the old lamp box and put the new one in, and then return the old lamp to the distributor because there is no place to recycle it here in the city.

We went through the old Tv route and when the hi def came in, we waited until the prices went down. We are very choosy as to what we watch but it seems if you just watch the locals, you do not get that good a selection, like Christian Tv, discovery, information. It depends on what you like. Like I love cooking shows and the old classics, but there are some that are quite good.

With us, it is "I hate sports and I hate certain shows, so I would rather watch a show that I like" but right now, we are looking into getting a blue ray player, but we usually buy high end in dvd players and they are either too expensive or they have not been made available. We did not buy our high def tv until it came down in price, so that is what we will do. And since the smaller hd lcds are around $300, I might look into one for the guest room.

We only use our large screen Tv. Sometimes I think about getting a smaller LCD for the bedroom or the guestroom when my husband wants to watch some sport program and I want to watch a science fiction.

I was looking into the smaller sized lcds and find they are too high priced now. We do have a large one, and we waited until there were enough hd programs on Tv to justify that. If there was just one or two, that would be a waste of time. They are now getting the older movies in the high def format and that is a lot better then the small screen. But if you want to get good tv programs you have to pay for it. You just get the most popular shows on local and what the media wants you to like. If you want scientific shows, nature shows, home improvement, discussion, etc. you have to pay for them.