Buck up. Sounds dreadful.
For my end, the chair you sit in to watch the show is the most expensive part. For other's it's the screen, and for others it really has to be the sound insulation!
Best bet is look at all the new technology ~ there's some incredible stuff out there, much of it thanks to Chinese slave labor working in deplorable conditions in Rare Earth Mines (for the magnets eh), but the LED stuff is infiltrating on a large scale. It's getting better and better. If you have to go cheap, last year's top of the line stuff is on the clearance shelf at Target this year.
Whole new world!