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And What Did You Get Your Wife For Christmas?

There is a scene in the old TV series "Home Improvement" where Jill asks Tim to build a home office for her in the attic. Tim replies with an evil grin "Don't tease me unless you really mean it. Arh, arh, arh."

Such was the case when my wife asked for a TV for Christmas. She just wanted something to watch when I'm watching a football game or a shoot 'em up in the den and our son is playing video games in the living room.

Of course we couldn't JUST get a TV. She needed a satellite receiver to get her favorite channels, a dvd player to watch chick flicks and view the Kodak picture disks. And of course a VCR to watch our old videos. It had to be simple and easy to use. Decent TV picture around 27", but no home theater. (Fresh memories of our son's system in the living room.) The stand needed to blend in well with our Cherry wood bedroom furniture. And it had to come in at $500 or less. (Aw c'mon honey, I have interconnects that cost more than that. Oops...)

Before I tell you what I did, you tell me. What would you have done? :o)

And a Merry Christmas to all!

kinsekd

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mwilson
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Hey - I got her the TV. A widescreen 22" Panasonic LCD TV with component video for the bedroom system. She loves to watch movies before bed, and since we're not a TV household, it's time together we don't always get.

The bedroom now features tubes (little ASL Wave 8s) AND flat TV, and nice homemade rack + speaker stands. Mixes old, new and homebuilt, and the morning light shines through the rack (partially in front of a window) very nicely. It's quite pretty actually. She loves the aesthetic value AND the mini-HT.
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