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[EricO]

My wife has never been too keen on my continual cash outlay for my CRT hobby until today. She's always said that we could pay for hundreds of tickets going to a "real theater" and still save oodles of hard-earned money compared to what I've spent on out home theater so far. I generally ignore her when she goes on this rant (Hey, it's only money!), which of course, really racks up the brownie points for me. So anyway, I was watching TV on the living room TV and she wanted to play her exercise DVD. I suggested she play it in the theater room (I haven't hooked up cable to the CRT yet, just DVD so far). She grumbled and took her disk in there. I followed her, turned it all on and went back to my show. An hour later she emerged grinning ear to ear. Now she can do her exercises with life size companions (women love the communal thing!) whenever she wants in sight and sound. Only now, she can pause, rewind, fast forward her virtual aerobics, yoga, _________________(fill in the blank) class. We've recently moved from the city to a lake house, miles away from the fitness centers of town and while she still goes to them, she can't do it with the regularity that she would like to. So this is apparently a sufficient replacement. A lot of your partners may like this idea and may clear the path to more wasteful spending for your CRT addiction!

[WanMan]

Eric, my wife was the same. It was a bog step, and a questionable one at that in her eyes, when we bought a 65" RPTV in 2000, along with a open box HTIB. She was delighted at the results, but we were still going to the public theaters some (high point of 65 times a year).

Then in 2003 I bought a $1500 CRT projector from Terry and had another friend calibrate it. This was in a bedroom converted to a temporary theater until the basement got finished. I painted it into a bat cave. She took one look at the 140 pound projector on the ceiling right above the loveseat and gave me that look of 'no way'. Thirty minutes into the first movie and she forgot about the thing above her head and has put 4500 hours on that projector.

Since then the idea of home theater has broadened and matured to include high definition, too. She's now a theater and HD junkie, and has become increasing more opened to technology in the home. BTW, we haven't been to the public theater is 2-3 years, and even at that it was a one-movie in the year thing. Now, no more.

Women typically cannot envision the final fruits of one's labor. We must be patient with them and show them what they've been missing in their blissfully ignorant lives.