Thanks, but actually I was in a Circuit City store just this afternoon. Even in its death throes, it's trying to rip people off. They say "10% off" but what they really did was raise the prices 20% and then drop 10% off of that. Everybody I've talked to knows that, and people are pissed off at the attempted wool-over job.
I stopped by today to see if they're selling off the store displays yet. They are, so I asked for the price of the 26" Toshiba that I had mentioned earlier in this thread. $419 for something that's out of the box and has had all kinds of people fucking with it. If they'd drop the price below $350, I might consider it. They also had an HD-DVD player (same model I've already got) in the box, so for the hell of it I asked about it. About $135. I thought maybe since HD-DVD's dead, I might consider getting a spare for when my player wears out or if I decide I have a use for a second one in a few years, but for me to have bought that one, they would have had to drop it below $100. There was also a camera tripod I had looked at a week earlier, but they wouldn't sell it then because they weren't allowed to sell off store displays yet. I looked at it again today and there was a part missing. Screw that.
A co-worker told me about a regular swap meet that goes on every few weeks in a nearby town, where one might find a working LaserDisc player. I imagine HD-DVD players will enter that realm by the time I'm in the market for another.
Of course, I'm not buying shit until I get my tax return (expected later this week). Most likely I'm going to Wallyworld when I do get the money.
One thing I'm now figuring out... The computer desk is right next to the entertainment center in my living room. I'm considering using the same UPS for both the computer stuff and the TV stuff. I'll have to estimate how many watts max that it might all pull, and make sure the UPS can handle it. (This is Florida I'm talking about... nasty, nasty lightning storms. I don't think I trust a regular surge suppressor with any of my equipment.) Battery backup would be good for both the HD-DVD player and the Blu-Ray player. From what I've heard, if either is pulling a firmware update off the Internet when the power goes out, it might fuck it up so that it's useful only as a boat anchor.