We don't have one either. I would be ok with getting an LCD but I refuse to let DH until our current tv breaks. I can't justify buying a replacement when the old one still works. Just more landfill. We have pay TV so digital is not a problem.
No big flat screen here! We mostly watch movies (and shows in DvD form) on our laptops so our small TV that flickers between black & white and colour is fine for the few shows we do want to see haha. We could get a bigger, better TV and I think DF would appreciate it for gaming purposes but I think the main thing stopping us is being too lazy to go to the shops and find one etc etc. Maybe I will get him one for Christmas...
My parents have a TV that takes up an entire wall... gives me a headache, I would never get one that big!!
We don't have one either. I don't necessarioy want one, but will probably get a mid sized one when tv goes digital. Either that or just a set top box. We do have a tv and dvd player in the kids room, but they're not plugged in and we don't use them. It's just there cause we have nowhere else to put it and I want to keep it for when we get our house...
We don't have a flat screen TV and I actually get headaches from looking at flat screen TV's when over at friends houses to watch a movie or whatever. So just on that I would never buy one. Andrew has been pestering me to get a flat screen monitor for the laptop, but for the above reason I just don't want one.
Thankyou girls! I am feeling a bit more normal now!!! I love that so many of you are going to get full use out of your current one before upgrading too
We don't. Our TV goes "crrr....crrrr...crrr" and snowy for about 10 minutes when you turn it on, and then it works ok. I think DH is hoping it will die so i will let him buy a new one. I just let him 'research' all the new flashy ones.
Our old tv (that was 20yrs old and from my parents old house -good old Panasonic) died when mum was here visiting so she bought us a flat screen LCD. I never would have bought one but she got it on sale and it is only a small one. I do worry that DD will push it over when she is crawling and pulling herself up on things.
We don't have one and will never ever ever get one. Even if we were offered one we would never take it.
Waste of electronics, money, energy, and brain space.
Oh but Kryss you look so good up there on tellie! So glad you gave me the heads up...was it last year??? I had my three kids gathered around the TV watching "Are You Smarter Than A Grade 5-er" feeling so in awe that you were brave enough o go on TV!
Don't have one and the only reason I would get one is to wall mount it to save space..
If you look hard, you can still find the old type occasionally.
The only reason DS doesn't play with the TV is that we have a playpen wall blocking his access... One day that won't work and I don't know what the heck I'm going to do!
We have one and I have very mixed feelings about it. I do enjoy the screen size, but I really hate how DH is so precious over it. It has caused many arguments. It has been damaged, within a month or so DD1 took the centre of the panel with a screw diver and then I caught her trying to clean it with screw threaded with a number of bolts. When we were renovating and had tradies come around DH wanted me to cover it with a sheet so they could not see it. He was afraid of it being stolen (you wont believe how many times he has asked if I have advised our insurance company of it), so DD1 and I had to sit home all day whilst the tradies were there and not be allowed to watch TV. I went against his wishes as a flat screen covered with a sheet still looks like a flat screen. I had a go at him about valuing the TV more than us and he backed down saying he was concerned for our safety if someone broke into the house.
If I knew how much stress it was going to cause I would have said no, but then again I was stressed enough by his harping on and on and on and on about wanting the blasted big tv and surround sound set-up. We are planning on wall mounting it soon to keep it out of reach. DD1 still touches it no matter how much she is told off and now DD2 is getting in on the act. So if you get on, put it on the wall!
ETA: just though I would add that our old TV was on the way out.
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We have a small flay screen. Our 15 year old TV had a permanently green picture so we splurged on the cheapest TV in the shop.
I don't see the point in spending enough money for a holiday on a giant TV. I'd rather have the holiday lol.
Astrid: Ah! at last another family who has children that touch the TV!!! Something that has always confused me is why other families with small children don't seem to have issues with their kids touching their things even though those kids are little rascals!!! yet i have pretty good kids but all my stuff gets wrecked! I assumed that other people have more money to replace everything as soon as it's broken/damaged... or that maybe I am just not strict enough... but i am pretty strict compared to most parents LOL ah but maybe my kids are just like me and just simply have a tendency to take things into their own hands instead of bothering to ask for help!
We brought a 68 cm 'old style' TV 8 years ago and we wont replace it till it is worn out - even then DH would be quite happy to not replace it at all. We aren't even sure if it will take a set top box for digital LOL. The IL's have one, but theirs is the really wide screen type and everyone on it looks distorted, like they are too wide - watching anything with Bert Newton on it is just crazy ROFL. The ONLY thing I like about them is that they can be mounted on the wall - great way to keep little fingers off them. Our PC monitor is a 19inch flat screen which has a TV tuner but I have never bothered with it. I do like watching DVDs on it though.
My question is though - where did all the 'old' TVs go? They can't have sold every last one of them. It just seemed like all of a sudden flat screen LCD and Plasma teevs were the only ones in the shop.
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One day that won't work and I don't know what the heck I'm going to do!
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