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I’m TV shopping.  I live in SD land, with my SD TiVo, my SDTV, and my SD cable.  We don’t even have digital.  I’ve been drooling over a new TV for I don’t know, 10 years.  Knowing what I know about tech, and knowing what these things cost, I’ve been fence sitting.  HD has been changing so rapidly its crazy.  I bought a reciever 5 years ago, a really nice one, and when I got it HDMI wasn’t even on the radar.  It seemed pretty future proof at the time, in fact I remember thinking that I wouldn’t need a new one for a very long time, if ever.  Now devices like Apple TV don’t have analog outputs, HDMI is the only was to get data out of a number of devices, and I know there is no way around it, I’m gonna need it when I go to Blu-Ray, or should I say if!

So here I am, looking at a TV, and hoping this crazy adoption of a new standard every week is over.  You don’t think its crazy, well HDMI is on version 1.3a or something like that, will it ever stop?  Maybe a global recession is just what we need to remind hardware makers obsoleting standards every year is not profitable.

Anyway back to the TV.  I’ve got my eye on the Pioneer KURO 5020FD 50″.  See waiting a decade to take the plunge means you can buy the good stuff when you do.  I’ve been looking around at reviews and it seems like there is a lot of good about this TV, and not much bad.  I checked it out at Best Buy tonight for like the 50th time.  It was sitting next to a Panasonic.  It was ever so slightly greyer in the greens.  I don’t know if that is just the calibration, or if the TV really can’t do greens that well.  If anyone out there has the thing, I would love to know.  Blacks were great, as the detail in the shadows looked really nice.  I don’t know much else about what I should be looking for in the TV, but it sure will be fun to get it home soon.  Just have to sell the wife.