Well my wife and I have agreed that it’s time to replace the TV in our living room. The old one was breaking down for awhile and finally died about a month ago. We’ve been getting by with a small 22 inch TV but in a room that size it’s just too small. My wife was having difficulty reading the menu on the smaller screen and even I found it hard at times too.
I’m more than a little annoyed that our old television died after only 8 years, but I guess they don’t make them like they used to. And we did look into getting it fixed but realized it just wasn’t worth the trouble.
We had to call half a dozen places just to find someone who could fix it (most wanted to charge $45 – $60 just to look at it…no thanks). And the guy who did come to check it out basically said it isn’t worth fixing. Even though it’s only 8 years old it is one of those old style tube tvs that you don’t even see in stores anymore.
The repairman said it would cost about $200 to fix and it would probably break again in a year or so. I appreciate his honesty as he could have easily taken us for $200 if he said it would last for 5 years.
But $200 to fix an old tv is like dropping $2000 into a 1993 Chevy Lumina. Just doesn’t make sense. So I shopped around for the best tv prices and found a Vizio 32 inch LCD TV for just $358 at Costco. That’s the one we’ll go with since we already have a Costco membership. It’s just about the same size as our old model and with this one we’ll be able to access the HDTV channels that we already receive through Verizon Fios.
Again, I’m not thrilled with spending the money on a new TV but it is something we’ll get use out of. We don’t go out to the movies very often…instead we rent movies ondemand or borrow dvds from the library. So I figure instead of spending the money most people would at the movie theater we’ll have a new TV for years to come (hopefully!).
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