I'm sort of in the same predicament. Our big screen tv just broke and while I have the green light from the wife to get HDTV, I figure it's gonna take quite a chunk of change to get there. It's not just getting the tv itself but don't you have to upgrade your Directv dish and pay additional monthly cost to get HD? Also we have the standard DTivo, that would also require upgrading to a HD-DVR to get HD source (life's too short to waste on live OTA commercials). When you have kids, there are other priorities over what we consider personal luxury entertainment...you know, other stuffs like food and diapers. This isn't the old days when you can just go out and snag a $600 tv and be done with. Btw, my platinum man-card membership already automatically got reduced to the bronze level when I said "I do" and kept getting reduced further as I add more kids. It's probably at bare-dirt level now so may as well shred it since the only thing keeping it alive is that I pop a beer and watch football on weekends.
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