I LOVE MY HIDDEN VISION TV MOUNT!! It was a Christmas gift in 2011. Watching tv in bed couldn't be more comfortable. I wear eye glasses with progressive lens. It use to be very hard to watch tv in bed,but with the Hidden Vision TV Mount I can lay on my back and the tv is in a perfect location. HDTV is intense!! Very fun to watch a powerful action movie in the dark! I'm a photographer, so being able to hide the tv and use one of my landscape images is a HUGE PLUS! Never enough room for beautiful photography.

Thanks for the tip Flamingo, but honestly I wouldn't change a thing on our set - even if I knew how :) I remember the technician showing us how to change the picture when it was first installed, but he recommended a setting and we haven't changed it since. This picture is crystal clear, beautifully proportioned and dead bang perfect no matter what channel we have it on, but we've only ever used this set with Direct TV so maybe it has something to do with their broadcast? I did notice last night when we were watching one of the SVU stations that the picture was squared off with black bars to the side, but that's very rare and is more about how the station is telecasting. That may tell you something about the ratio our set is set on, I dunno. Still, the quality was perfect and I wouldn't have adjusted it even if I could have figured it out. The Direct TV techs that were out a couple of weeks ago to switch out the box stood and watched the picture. They said the quality was amazing considering it was a 5 year old set and 1080i, not 1080p. We also have a progressive scan DVD player, and watching widescreen movies is like having our own private theater. Alisande, you're going to wonder how you ever lived with a square box TV once you make the change! And yes, you will eventually have to switch over to a digital set, because eventually all the networks will have to relinquish all their old analog signals by 2009. This has been a mandate for 10 years, giving people the opportunity to make the switchover as they needed to replace their existing sets. "Congress Sets Deadline for Digital TV Switchover -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, with little fanfare, the U.S. Congress has thrown down the gauntlet for consumers who have yet to make the changeover to digital TVgo digital by February 17, 2009, or go without television. The provision mandating a switchover to all-digital broadcast by that date was part of a deficit reduction legislation bill passed in late 2005 by both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. To ease the transition, the legislation also earmarks $1.5 billion to help consumers buy digital converter boxes, providing up to two $40 coupons per household that can be used to offset the purchase price. The eventual elimination of analog broadcasting of television programming will free up portions of the radio spectrum currently allocated for that purpose. Some of the freed up spectrum will be reallocated for use by emergency services, while other portions will reportedly be auctioned off to wireless companies. As part of their calculus, lawmakers estimate that the auction could generate as much as $10 billion in revenue for the federal government, and have earmarked $7.4 billion of that amount for cutting the federal deficit (hence the connection with the budget legislation). An estimated 15% of U.S. households (or about 16-20 million households) continue to rely on over-the-air television broadcasts. Those consumers will either need to upgrade their current televisions to digital-ready TV, purchase a converter box to receive digital signals, or subscribe to a cable or satellite service by early 2009."

My husband and I have a TV den upstairs next to our bedroom (designated a small bedroom), and it's great. I absolutely did not want a TV in the living room because it would be in the way, we don't do TV as a social activity, and it would be unsightly and anachronistic in our Victorian AF main floor. We also did not want a TV in the bedroom because we've just never been into that and it's terrible for sleep hygiene. My aunt and uncle had a bedroom TV for ages but ditched it when they moved to their new house. Having the TV den upstairs near our bedroom has been great - you can retire to upstairs and watch TV/play video games before bed but not IN bed. And we'll stick with one TV. There are enough old coax cables on our house to put a TV in every room (previous owner was obsessed with TV, I guess?) but I couldn't imagine. I don't even like TV that much.

I record most of what we watch, but we also watch shows using our antenna that the cable service neglects to provide for us. Last week-end I discovered that we get a "Surf" channel from our antenna - all surf, all the time, complete with surf music, which I like. I haven't seen any commercials on that channel, but that might change, as I think it is a new channel. We get three times as many PBS channels through our antenna as we do through cable, and I watch a lot of those - except for the Kids channels. I mute all commercials that I cannot FF through. I remember back in the 1950s and early 1960s when commercials used to be entertaining, especially the ones for Jax Beer: