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Here is the problem for these new tvs: how good of a tv do you really need? I've read various reports that 3-D tvs are not selling well. Why not? Isn't 3-D the next new great thing? It's not selling that well because people most people are quite satisfied with what they have at a much cheaper price.

I relate it to ice cream. There are various expensive ice creams that their backers tout as being the best-tasting ice cream in the world. And maybe they are. But so what? If you're satisfied (as I am) with a much cheaper brand that tastes almost as good, why buy the very expensive brand? That goes for all products. I don't have to eat at the most expensive steak house in town to be satisfied with a good steak dinner.

As with these other examples, I don't need the latest, greatest gadget (in this case ultra-huge tv) to be satisfied. My wife and I are more than happy with out 46" Toshiba hdtv that was a vast improvement over our old 37" analog. The price will surely go down with this latest galactic-sized innovation, and maybe I'll buy one when it gets down to something affordable. But it won't because I absolutely have to have one because it's superior to the one I have now. It might be (and probably is) superior, but ....so what?

Our consumer society often makes illogical choices.

In science fiction stories, sometimes a wall or a window will turnout to be a TV screen. Imagine sitting at home in Oklahoma and looking out the window and enjoying the pounding Atlantic surf on the rocky coast below. Blue sky, puffy clouds stretching off to the horizon. A perfect day. Or, for a change, the pristine, snow-capped mountains of Colorado -- right before your eyes. Best view in town.

Are these super-fancy TVs destined to become nothing more than a window offering an illusion that we live in a nice place? Quite possibly.

I agree.... Though I have two tvs one is 20 years old and the other 15 and neither is larger than 26”. But guess what Santa’s bringing me this year? The actual drive is to open up space in the house and eliminate the cabinet the current TV sets in.

I agree.... Though I have two tvs one is 20 years old and the other 15 and neither is larger than 26”. But guess what Santa’s bringing me this year? The actual drive is to open up space in the house and eliminate the cabinet the current TV sets in by putting a flat screen on the wall.

I will buy one when the price comes down. It would be a great way to display family photos and our phones will likely be taking 4k video by then.

Plus, most people are still using the TV to watch reruns of Gilligan’s Island or some similar drivel.

Who needs to see that the newsreaders roots need to be touched up or that the quarterback missed a spot when he shaved this morning?

And who has space in the house for an 84” TV? For the average home, a TV that big would be uncomfortable to watch because the viewer would be sitting way too close.

Same here. We shopped for our first HDTV about a year and a half ago. I wanted a LED back lit screen with a decent refresh rate, about 42 inches. The 3D sets were being pushed but I just couldn’t see it. I looked at a number of the 3D’s and thought it was mostly a distraction. We watch movies mainly for the story. Those with great special effects but lousy stories are always avoided. As for sports (the wife and I watch a lot of baseball and football)the LG 47” we bought on sale will suffice for a very long time. The funny part was that it took me about a year of steady browsing before I made a purchase. Since then I have had no desire whatsoever to go into an electronics store (much to my wife’s relief!)