Or people who go an aquarium and take pictures of the fish with their flashes on.

I always laugh at the flashes during fireworks or sporting events. Unless of course these folks want photos of the back of people's heads. At sporting events or concerts I guess they could have a flash so powerful and accurately focused that it may actually work.

For the record, I had my HDTV cable box installed the same day as my TV was delivered. But I would also be lying if I said that having a 61 inch widescreen TV had nothing to do with my decision. Who says size does not matter?

Though our TV is less than a year old, we're thinking of upgrading. Our TV only has the capability of 720p, and we'd like to get 1080p if possible on the next one.

That, and bigger could be better too.

You know I used to shake my head and/or chuckle at people like that too. In fact, my in-laws are those people. Big HDTV and a basic cable subscription. Watching their TV was torture.

Then one day I was talking about it with my mother (who isn't one of those people and knows to consult her loving son for advice - and did a kick ass job of setting up her own HD/theater set-up) and she put it into perspective.

Maybe those people don't care about HDTV, they just want/need a TV.

And that's probably the truth. Anyone buying a TV in the past few years really didn't have a choice - HDTV's are what's for sell. Even if I had no desire to HD programming, I'd still pretty much have to buy an HDTV (unless I went for one of the overpriced, oversized relics that still line the shelves in the dark corners of some electronics stores)

I guess the point is that a certain segment of those people who had no idea they had to do more than just buy the TV really don't care in the first place...they just needed or wanted a new TV.

The same people have dial-up internet service and are fine with it. They honestly don't know what they're missing and fine with that.

But they're also paying a premium that's unused.

Because the Best Buy salesman coerced them into something they don't need.

Now, now. They are not "salesmen". They are "home theater specialists".