Time For A New TV

Since the TV is totally dead now, we took a trip to Best Buy to see if we could find a deal on a new one.  Well that didn’t go well at all.  We were over in the TV section when we had a kid come up and ask if he could help us find anything.  We explained the situation with our TV and how since Samsung has been literally no help at all, I will not be spending money on a new Samsung.  Well that sort of limited our options since 70% of their TVs were Samsung models.  We also gave him a price point, and a couple of features that we wanted since we had them on the current TV.  And again that limited our selections to about 3 or 4 TVs.  But of course the first one he shows us is the one at the top of our proposed range.  And then he shows us one that is just slightly above our range.  It was a decent model, and had what we wanted (I think it was an LG) but, missed the price criteria.  So thanked him and said we’d look at the other models and let him know if we decided on anything.

It is just ridiculous what a new TV goes for!  All I want is a 55” screen, and a 120Mhz processor for fluid movement and the ability to connect to the internet for Netflix.  That’s it!  I don’t need a screen that will differential 3 billion different colors, or a curved screen, or all the other bells and whistles.  I don’t get that much enjoyment out of it. 

It was depressing because if we wanted the same size TV, we didn’t have many options, and we were not about to drop that much money on a TV unless we were sure we would be satisfied with it.  So we ended up leaving to ponder our options.  After thinking about it, Kris and I decided to see if it was able to be repaired.  I found a place online that said they did repair HD, flat screen TVs.  Wow!  Who knew places like that even were still around.  They said they had a $50 evaluation fee.  In the end I thought, at most it’d be $50 to find out it was totally dead and we needed a new TV.  If we were going to be forced to spend $3K on a new TV, I figured another $50 to find out for sure wasn’t a big deal.