lcd hdtv, home theater componentsThe holidays are over and it's back to normal life at our house which means that our LCD HDTV is going to be getting a lot of use again. It's nice out during the day but the evenings are chillly, so we either gather around the LCD HDTV or read books for our evening's entertainment. The kids get home early enough from school to get their homework done and that leaves them with about three hours where they can either play computer games, read, chat with their friends, or watch some decent TV. We get six public TV stations and there's always something really interesting on, so I don't mind that they park themselves in front of the home theater components and watch TV.

There are some fascinating things on TV and watching them on an LCD HDTV is such a joy. The colors are fantastic, the picture quality first class, and if they're watching public TV, the content is really good. We subscribe to an Internet TV service and can cable over the show to the TV from the computer just by using a VGA cable. We put our old computer tower next to the home theater components, so this is really easy to do. We love watching live streaming movies and haven't been to the video store for ages, since signing up.

I'm presently looking at LCD HDTVs for the kids bedrooms so they can play their video games or watch the show of choice. I found a great place to get them at decent prices at Shopp Rite Mall located at http://www.shoppritemall.com. We've just started looking for TVs for them to use privately and we may end up just buying a 32" TV like this Pyle P32LCD 32" LCD TV. Having a larger LCD HDTV has some real advantages. If we buy the big one, we'll put it in the loft that the kids use for their laptops which would give them a lot more room for playing with their game consoles. And we could keep an eye on what they're doing, too.

The advantages of having smaller LCD HDTVs in their individual rooms would be that they could watch whatever they wanted, and when they had friends over, they could simply move the TVs out to the loft and have more room. It would be nice when they're sick, too, so they could lay in bed being entertained while they're recovering. This is a family discussion and we'll try to make the best decision based on input from the kids and our budget.