Gone from The Hitler Channel to The Armageddon Channel.

I mostly watch National Geographic HD these days. Or Netflix. Or even shows on Hulu.

The TV Tropes term is: Network Decay.

I thought that the idea of having 500 channels was that you could watch the kind of programming you liked. Instead what's happening is the cable networks are reforming into identical blobs.

In this case the price difference was far too great. The same TV at Fry's or Best Buy was $650 plus sales tax. I got the same TV at Amazon for $500, saving me about $200. It arrived with no flaws.

We have Fry's Electronics here also. But the Best Buy is three miles away, the Fry's is 16 miles.

I find I buy more and more electronics on Amazon anyway. With Prime, I can get it in a day for four bucks. Ordered a 26" Samsung HDTV that way.

I'm sad to see Circuit City go.

Okay. So I'd save that much in the first year of ownership. But if the Tier 1 TVs that can only be sold in California costs substantially more than that (Say $30-$50), it could take years to recoup savings on the electrical bill.