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I got a 503cmx a couple of weeks ago and my wife and I are thoroughly enjoying it. Our expectations on how much we thought we would like it have been greatly exceeded. However, we're getting some backlash on the fact that we spent so much money on a TV.
My wife and I are both lucky enough to have good jobs that supports our lifestyle. We're both young engineers (28 yrs) with no kids or college loans to pay off. We drive nice cars, we live in a nice house, we go on nice vacations. When it comes down to it we don't worry about spending money but at the same time we're not frivolous.
Everyone else in both our families either chose a career that historically doesn't pay well or just never took advantage of what college had to offer. There's only a couple people in both our families that understands what makes a HT and understand a plasma's role in a HT. Other have never seen a plasma in real life.
Others are tech-challenged (don't know how to RTFM) or are grossly mis-informed by CC salesmen (2006 is when everything will be HDTV). One family member bought a progressive scan DVD player (although she doesn't have any DVD's, her TV can't do progressive and prefers fullscreen) to be prepared for HDTV live date(?).
The comments we are hearing are "6K on a TV is impractical, you should be buying land" and "a nice TV armoire looks better than any plasma can". What should I do? Should I audition the plasma to these family members and hope they have a moment of clarity (they haven't seen it yet)? Should I let them continue on in there HT ignorance? Anyone else experience this?
My wife and I are both lucky enough to have good jobs that supports our lifestyle. We're both young engineers (28 yrs) with no kids or college loans to pay off. We drive nice cars, we live in a nice house, we go on nice vacations. When it comes down to it we don't worry about spending money but at the same time we're not frivolous.
Everyone else in both our families either chose a career that historically doesn't pay well or just never took advantage of what college had to offer. There's only a couple people in both our families that understands what makes a HT and understand a plasma's role in a HT. Other have never seen a plasma in real life.
Others are tech-challenged (don't know how to RTFM) or are grossly mis-informed by CC salesmen (2006 is when everything will be HDTV). One family member bought a progressive scan DVD player (although she doesn't have any DVD's, her TV can't do progressive and prefers fullscreen) to be prepared for HDTV live date(?).
The comments we are hearing are "6K on a TV is impractical, you should be buying land" and "a nice TV armoire looks better than any plasma can". What should I do? Should I audition the plasma to these family members and hope they have a moment of clarity (they haven't seen it yet)? Should I let them continue on in there HT ignorance? Anyone else experience this?