We made a Thanksgiving-night run to Meijer for milk and bread; while we were there, I saw that they had a Thanksgiving-only special on the Syntax Olevia LT27HVX, a 27″ flat-panel LCD television with good specs (1280 x 720, with 480p, 720p, and 1080i support). For $499, I jumped on it– that ended up being my anniversary present from Arlene. On Friday, BestBuy had a sale on their DirecTV HD receivers: $199 with a $199 mail-in rebate. Matthew, Thomas, and I headed out to BestBuy about 0830 and it was jam-packed– talk about crowd-fighting! It was worth it, though, as we eventually emerged with a shiny new H10. Its OTA tuner isn’t as sensitive as the one in the living room HR10-250, so I ended up having to put an inline 10dB amplifier on its cable run, but now it works really well. It’s a treat to be able to watch HD under an electric blanket 
Bedroom HDTV upgrade
Filed under HDTV and Home Theater
Well, Paul, now that you have all new shiny HDTVs, you need to capture all your family memories on a shiny new Sony HDV Handycam…
http://tinyurl.com/dxu55
Dude, one of those would cost more than my entire investment in HDTV- both TVs, both satellite receivers, and my antenna cost me less than $2K. I think I’ll wait for the WalMart version