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I've been in this weird no man's land for a few months now, having amassed and now long surpassed the amount of money I needed to buy myself a whopping great flat screen tv LCD HD whatever thing I've found myself completely paralysed whenever I've gone to buy it.

I've thought about it a bit and realsied it is because I have never spent this much money on anything before (excluding my house and housey related stuff). I keep reading up on tellys, committing to getting one and then bottling it. It just seems like a cuntlot of money to shell out for something which definitely isn't gonna change my life for the better by any noticeable degree, however, I do actually really want one and I want a Wii and I want to buy into that lifestyle of having friends round to watch a film on my fucking massive telly, get them all to comment on how shithot my sound system is and then get them to dance and contort themselves for my amusement using my cock sticks and my Wii. But, in the back of my mind, a nagging doubt lingers that that is not my life, those are not my people and nothing I can ever do can change that: that I am now, always have been and ever will be an analogue manchild, doomed to never watch anything on BBC4 when it's actually on. In a few years, they'll switch off the analogue system altogether and I'll be left alone like Wall-E, except much, much better.

Have you ever tortured yourself like this? Or am I just some kind of spineless useless fucking fuck? Cos I'm beginning to feel like I might be. I'm never gonna get one at this rate, I'll just end up dead and monstrously rich but with no tv to speak of and that doesn't really leave much scope for an uplifting eulogy.
 
Then I'll be like Wall-E. And I really don't want to end up like Wall-E. That little prick is really annoying.
 
Just put it away, one day soon they'll be a massive bargain and you can get one. :)

How much money are we talking?? :eek::D

I don't have a posh telly, (although my 20 inch is about to die, the tubes are fuckied) I just have a 20 quid freeview box what's wrong with that? :hmm::o
 
A blog? Write agonising polemics about subjects I know fuck all about? That's pretty much why I come on here, to be honest.
 
I had The Paralysis over buying a laptop. In the end I fucked it up by panicking so careful now.
 
I get that all the time - on the rare occasions when I actually have enough money to buy something on my wish list of Stuff, I panic and wonder whether I should be spending money on it.
 
zenie said:
Just put it away, one day soon they'll be a massive bargain and you can get one. :)

How much money are we talking?? :eek::D

I don't have a posh telly, (although my 20 inch is about to die, the tubes are fuckied) I just have a 20 quid freeview box what's wrong with that? :hmm::o
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Quick life story - I got kicked out of home when I was 16 and booted out of college when I was 17. I worked a load of shitty jobs for a few years before clawing my way up through my current profession to a position where I am finally earning some decent money. This is the first time in my life I've ever been able to afford stuff like this, I think I deserve it and yet the idea of getting them kind of leaves me a bit cold because of the large chunk of money involved. Like, I do want one but I can't muster the same enthusiasm my friends can about what is, basically, an oversized tv with slightly better picture quality.

I'd rather spend the money on a holiday - that genuinely does excite me, however, mrs k is a teacher and can only go at certain times (the hugely expensive ones) and there's no point me going on my own cos I'm too far gone and would spend the whole time pining.
 
tarannau said:
Save the money, assuage guilt and do the Christian thing at Christmas: buy Clyde a new sofa.

:cool:
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I actually need a couple of sofas and a new kitchen myself which I really should spend the cash on but I've promised myself something big, expensive and indulgent for, literally, years.
 
I'm willing to bet that once you accept that you will not be buying it, you'll feel relief. Put aside your promises to yourself you've making about getting a massive telly, accept that you've grown beyond wanting shiny toys, and put it towards the mortgage. Buy yourself something small but fun, like a day at a racetrack or quadbiking instead. More memories, more fun, less financial guilt.
 
If you are not sure don't get it.

I often have crazy fits where I must have MUST HAVE a new guitar. I read up on them check out deals and work myself into a frenzy. Then I tie myself down and wait for the feeling to pass (weeks). When the feeling has gone I wonder what the fuck I was thinking.
 
I'm in the same boat regarding mobile phones man. Want one that'll replace my camera and ipod but dont want to be looking at my piece of shit lump of arse phone in 6 months still paying £30 a month on it for the next year when you can get something twelvety times better for half the price and I look like a twat every time I sling my brick on the table while out with chums at the local bingo hall :mad:
 
missfran said:
I'm willing to bet that once you accept that you will not be buying it, you'll feel relief. Put aside your promises to yourself you've making about getting a massive telly, accept that you've grown beyond wanting shiny toys, and put it towards the mortgage. Buy yourself something small but fun, like a day at a racetrack or quadbiking instead. More memories, more fun, less financial guilt.
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Badgers - cheers for that, that's really helpful :)

Missfran - you're right, you're right, but right now I am Robin Williams just before he accepted his square's life in Hook and gave up being Peter Pan forever. I still have a hazy memory of having done some fun stuff once upon a time. Once I can eradicate that, I'd imagine it would be Coldplay concerts and VIP camping at V agogo!
 
You're still allowed to have fun! A giant shiny telly does not equal fun.

Take the missus to Paris/Bruges for the weekend. Eurostar on Friday night, you're there in a few hours, back Sunday night, no school missed, beer drunk, fun had.
 
I torture myself like this before every purchase, but it does mean I always get an excellent deal.

When I bought my new TV I did a load of drugs and stayed up all night forcing myself to find an even cheaper deal.

In the end I found a 37" HD LCD for £260 delivered with a 2yr warranty and it makes me feel warm inside every time I remember the bargain I got :cool:
 
Get a free or very cheap telly off gumtree/freecycle
Give some money to charity
Start threads about it

:) :)
 
Go for something with 1080p with HDMI inputs, and every other feature is up to you - do you need it with a built in Freesat decoder, buy a Viera. Work out a spec that you want (e.g. do you want to connect your PC? Does it need SVHS? Composite? Digital sound output?) and pick the one closest to your spec.
 
Cheers, kyser. I should've said in the OP - my main motivation is that I now have a PS3 with blu-ray and a friend of mine said that watching stuff like Planet Earth etc on that makes it very worthwhile.

I heard that if a tv says HDready then we won't see the benefit of blu ray, whereas if it says just HD, we will. What the fuck is going on?
 
Right, you need to look at the screen definition (i.e. how many pixels it displays), and the scan method used.

'HD Ready' simply means that it's ready for 720p HD TV broadcasts, not the 1080i/1080p (interlace or progressive scan) that BDVD has. The minimum spec you'll want is 1080i for a PS3, but 1080p isn't any more expensive, and is slightly more future proof.

I've got a PS3 and 40" 1080p Sony Bravia; the TV has 2xHDMI outputs, 1xcomposite video (the one that uses 4x phono inputs), 2xSCART, 1xSVHS and 1xDVI/PC input, plus a couple for SD cards...check out a few TV/tech review sites, and also have a look at 'PS3 Accessories' recommendations...
 
Hey Sadken, your experiences sound similar to mine.
However I was always semi against getting a flatscreen TV but wanted one at the same time. We all used to watch TV DVDs and iplayer through the PC until one day it broke. So I dug the 14" from the loft and we survived with that for a while. However this weekend we were all in various stages of flu and I thought I'd at least have to invest in a DVD player so we could watch some postman pat etc for the kids. So I went out on a mission with the 2 kids in tow (2 & 3 and high on Calpol) to find me a DVD player, needless to say I came home with 22" flat screen TV and a DVD player without giving a flying fuck. I guess it came down to we needed it so I got it. I feel quite emboldened despite being 300 nicker worse off. Needless to say we could afford it without getting into debt etc.
 
Cheers jusali. Yeah, the deals for the 22" types are all looking pretty good and I reckon I'd get round to one for the bedroom after a while. At the moment I'm searching for a beheamouth though. I don't know why - call it instinct - but I just have a funny feeling that everybody will respect me if I buy a big tv.
 
I got a 42" 720p plasma (Phillips) about 6 months ago, I didn't know anything about HD at the time, was an entirely spontaneous purchase as it was going cheap (€700) (my late nan specifically left me a grand to spend on 'stuff' so i bought that and a vapouriser, she'd be proud, she was always watching the telly).
Looked fine in our old place - looks bloody massive in our new (smaller place), I need to get it up on the wall. Full res stuff looks amazing, you can already see the film noise so 1080i must be ridiculous. Of course if I knew what I was doing I would've got 1080 and probably a bit smaller. But I'm glad it's a plasma - the picture is amazing from any angle.
I've been running a TVix 4100SH through it on HDMI, you can just fill the unit with downloads, it plays almost anything and beats the old 19" TV I used to run it through. I've got about 100GB of kids programs for the little one and have been collecting Blueray rips from torrent sites. I need to save for a PS3 now :)
You'll only regret it if you drop it.
 
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