Well, it's come to this. Our 27-inch Sony, circa 1988, though still working well, will soon be replaced. To keep up with the times, we have decided to get a new television -- one of those new large high-definition jobs (plasma, magma, whatever) that looks like a large flat painting that you can hang on a wall.
Along with that, of course, we have to get a new a/v system, meaning a new home theater receiver with all the bells and whistles, new loudspeakers ('high end', so-called), new recording and playback devices, even new wires (monstrous they are these days). Having done the required homework on the subject, I am still wrestling with the esoteric terms and acronyms that the technology comes with.
But we spend enough time in front of the darn televison anyway, and we may as well go with the flow and update the system.