We have am old TV, but we haven't used it in ten years. (The TV set, incidentally, dates from 1989.) But now we want to use it again for occasional things, for instance we've invited some people over to watch the Oscars next Sunday.
So I went out to buy a digital converter, with this deadline in mind, and found that most places around here allegedly carry them but are actually out of stock. The only one I found in stock was $50 at Wal-Mart. Normally I avoid Wal-Mart, but all the more likely places had none in stock.
Meanwhile a friend told me he had bought that exact one, but it had only lasted a few months, and then he went through two more which failed within several months, and finally he gave up and bought a new TV.
So thinking of this, I saw a small TV at Wal-Mart and just bought it for $98. It doesn't matter that the screen is small (19"), because we're attaching it to a digital projector, which I acquired free, incidentally.
But the $98 TV is still in its box, unpacked, and I'm rethinking my extravagance. Should I return it, do you think, and buy the $50 digital converter instead, or just keep the TV?