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luvshihtzu · 01-13-2012, 07:45 PM

SeaKing,
I kind of understand why your son was upset about the TV going to the dump. Our old 30/32 inch Sony TV (it weighed a ton) broke and my husband wanted to throw it out. Think we spent over $5,500 for it and the set was just out of the five year warranty. I finally convinced him to have it repaired for $200 and we got a few more years out of it. It is still downstairs and I use it when there are electrical storms.

I was laughing to myself thinking about the Sony Beta Max. We still have the old top of the line model that we paid around $1,000 for at one time, still sitting downstairs with the old Sony TV connected. My husband was one of those who insisted that the quality of Beta tapes was so far above VHS tapes that we had to have the Sony Recorder. I had to buy very special expensive Beta tapes for it. They are still in a drawer unused and now we use our HP computer with TV tuner to do all our TV recording.
How times have changed. Wish I knew then what was coming down the line in electronics. Could have saved a fortune.

01-13-2012, 07:45 PM	#49
luvshihtzu Groupie Posts: 194 Karma: 39390 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Tucson, Arizona Device: Kindle DX Graphite, Sony 950 and iPad	SeaKing, I kind of understand why your son was upset about the TV going to the dump. Our old 30/32 inch Sony TV (it weighed a ton) broke and my husband wanted to throw it out. Think we spent over $5,500 for it and the set was just out of the five year warranty. I finally convinced him to have it repaired for $200 and we got a few more years out of it. It is still downstairs and I use it when there are electrical storms. I was laughing to myself thinking about the Sony Beta Max. We still have the old top of the line model that we paid around $1,000 for at one time, still sitting downstairs with the old Sony TV connected. My husband was one of those who insisted that the quality of Beta tapes was so far above VHS tapes that we had to have the Sony Recorder. I had to buy very special expensive Beta tapes for it. They are still in a drawer unused and now we use our HP computer with TV tuner to do all our TV recording. How times have changed. Wish I knew then what was coming down the line in electronics. Could have saved a fortune.