[Porsche-O-Phile]

I go back and forth on this. . .

On the one hand, I like the LCD picture quality versus "conventional" RGB pixel sets like I have now. OTOH, I find it hard to justify spending over $1,000 for some Chinese-made piece of crap that's likely to fall apart in three years to watch the same lousy brain-rotting programming that I don't really watch now.

If my current TV ever up and dies, I'll have a very difficult decision as to whether or not to bother replacing it. I suppose my choices would be to either (1) get a 42" LCD or (2) not have a TV at all. Personally, I'd lean towards #2.

"Color calibration service"? AYFKM? That sounds like pure profit-padding on the part of the store. Even more shameless than the stupid "warranty plans" they try to pump. Seriously, do you honestly think there's some magic black art of getting a frikken TV set up properly that some $8-an-hour grunt can do and you're incapable of figuring out?