Goodbye 65, hello 52!

My 65-inch TV had finally passed away last week. I bought it in March 2001 so it lasted almost 7 years. I fixed the old TV once early this year due to a bad circuit chip which caused the picture to compress. This time it was the power circuit that had gone bad and it wouldn't power up. After doing some search I had determined that it's too costly to repair it so I decided to replace the old TV with a 52-inch flat panel LCD TV from Vizio. I bought the Vizio from Costco for $2199 and its picture quality is clearly on par with other brands that cost two to three times more. Below is the picture of the TV.



This TV has four HDMI inputs with full inband audio decoding, native 1080p at 1920x1080 pixels, and powerful full range detachable speakers. It can decode HDTV signals from my Cox cable so now I don't need my indoor HDTV antenna anymore! The picture is so sharp and vivid that it blows my mind away. I also got myself a Wii component video cable and now my Wii looks 10 times better than before. I actually visited Bestbuy and Circuit City prior to making the purchase and neither store offered anything close to what Vizio/Costco had to offer (both price and features wise). Costco also offers a two-year warranty on the TV which is very good.