[CobraJet]

I went shopping at Sears recently with my wife for a new flat screen TV. The young salesgirl approached and asked what we were interested in. I said I wanted a console model in mahogany. She looked at me like I was from Mars.

[AFreeBird]

I went shopping at Sears recently with my wife for a new flat screen TV. The young salesgirl approached and asked what we were interested in. I said I wanted a console model in mahogany. She looked at me like I was from Mars.

LOL,

I had an old Sony, 27" console (oak) that the tube died on. It's actually a part of the family room furniture; has a lamp, candlesticks and pictures on top of it. So I went out and found a Samsung 30" HDTV "SlimFit" CRT.

Took the old Sony guts out of the cabinet and with a little modification to the cabinet (had to cut out the original speaker boxes) the new TV slid right in. I still have to dress it out (trim around the TV) to make it look natural, but I have an HDTV console.

And with all that freed up space inside the back of the cabinet, I'm toying with the idea of putting in a Linux powered MythTV DVR.

[Madame Dufarge]

LOL!

Those old TV's were pieces of furniture, weren't they? Entire families could have lived inside the cabinets.

[tenthirteen]

your console mahogany comment was a good one. I went recently to K-Mart and asked the young lady in electronics if they had rabbit ears. She said I should look in the Halloween costume section. Geez!