The Future. On my laptop.

Leave Nicholas Sparks where he is, but you really should read The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. And the Book of Thel. Blake is some kind of mad scientist, I swear.

Every TV I have ever purchased has cost me $500 and they kept getting bigger and better every time. I can’t wait to see what I get for $500 the next time I buy a TV.

Same here. It looks like 40" LCDs start around $1000. So, in a few years…
$500 will net you a 32" LCD at the moment. Plasmas still start within my
Holy-cow-I’m-not-paying-that-much-for-a-TV range.

Starting a couple years ago, CRT computer monitors have almost completely
disappeared from stores. LCDs became so cheap there was no reason to sell
CRTs anymore. Has that happened to TVs now? I noticed that circuitcity.com
only had 1 Tube-based television listed…

How fast is your net connection?

A nippy broadband connection at your end coupled with decent video codecs and good streaming software would enable buffer free TV.