Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is faced with a choice to make. His 46″ Sony HDTV has died. It was 7 years old. It was a rear-projection TV. It was really the last generation of high quality rear-projection TVs out there really. So, it looks like he’s going to have to shell out some money to buy himself a new TV. He wishes he didn’t have to, but it will be hard to go without through the holidays.

Your Maximum Leader and Villainette #2 went out to a number of fine retail establishments last night to scope out potential TVs to buy. At this point we are leaning towards a 50″ Samsung Plasma with 4 HDMI connections (we must have at least 3 to facilitate the connection of a Blu-Ray player, an X-Box and a Wii. This is the model we are looking at closely:
Samsung PN50C550 50-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV

The reviews on Amazon and on other sites seem to be favorable, and the TV is in stock at the same price at three different retailers in the vicinity of the Villainschloss. Your Maximum Leader thinks he could likely save a little money by buying on-line, but the delivery time might be an issue…

Anyhoo…

It looks like there will be a new TV in the Villainschloss tonight…

BTW, one of the first posts your Maximum Leader wrote on this blog was about buying the TV that just died. The great irony of this is that in that earlier post, your Maximum Leader fumed and threatened the Samsung company with liquidation in the Mike World Order for making such a crappy TV. 7 years later Samsung is making great TVs and Sony is beginning to decline. Your Maximum Leader will chalk this corporate success story up to his threats of 7 years ago. If he had not threatened Samsung then, they would not be continuing to compete (and flourish) in the marketplace.

Carry on.