Summation

[chuckro]

40" (or larger) HD TV: $1,000
XBox 360: $300
Final Fantasy 13: $60
Ikea TV stand suitable new TV: $200
Trip to Ikea: 1 day plus borrowing/renting appropriate car (or +$100 for shipping)
Dealing with Comcast: ~several days of my life

Playing FF13: Priceless Apparently not worth it, after all...

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Of all those expenses, I'm certain all would be worth it save the last. Trips to IKEA are fun (and assembling the new furniture is like LEGOS for adults); a new, bigger TV will only make watching things more pleasant and less of a strain on the eyes; and the XBOX will eventually provide so many hours of entertainment, you won't need much else.

And yet, for all that, the idea of wrangling Comcast into order is enough to make even me go, "Er..."

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Remembering how expensive my current tv was and how hard it was to get it home (and I had a car then), I absolutely refuse to get a new one until this one breaks. But the center-cutting on network shows is starting to drive me BATSHIT CRAZY. OMG. Give me an option for watching it letterbox and I will. Don't just cut off half of McGee's face.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, if you end up buying one and need someone to assemble a TV stand for it, I'm up to the job!

I feel you on the TV issue. Ours, though it works impeccably, has roughly a jillion connections so we don't need an AV receiver, and is a big scren, is too heavy and large and eats up too much space in our place for my comfort. When we end up moving, too, that thing is going to require its own trip. I'm starting to panic about it more and more as we get closer to the end of the lease. Why are TVs never perfect?

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

Definitely agree. Ikea is awesome. If it was closer by, I'd probably go there just to hang out, and eat swedish meatballs.