A couple months after Christmas, my boys are asking for a bigger and better tv to go along with their game playing experience. I understand that all of their friends have one of those new HDTVs but we never saw the reason for it.

Our television works perfectly alright and we don't really have the cash to sink into a new HDTV. I also heard that you have to pay extra to the dish company for HDTV service. I am not interested in paying more money than I really need to.

We already pay so much for the flick channels we subscribe to and I am not willing to cancel those since we all love to watch good movies at home. Nonetheless, I did feel that maybe it was time for an upgrade.

We could also take the television currently in the living room and put it in the upstair extra room so our guests can have some private tv watching. So one weekend, my husband and I went out to Circuit City to see what we could afford.

The salesman showed us one of the less expensive HDTVs available and let us know that it was just as good as the large names. We considered it and then decided that since we always buy Kenwood, we would kinda stick with a name we know. We ended up purchasing a new Sony HDTV for only a little more than the less expensive one.

The sales associate did let us know about something that made paying a bit more for the television worth it. He said there are antennas accessible that give you the same signals as the satellite provider does.

You buy it and place it either indoors or outdoors and then you can have all the channels you would obtain through the cable company without paying for it every month. We looked into it and bought one of the antennas for outdoors.

We now have it all set up and we couldn't be happier. The children love to play their games on the big HDTV and my spouse and I love watching movies or tv on it. I must say I should have invested in this a while ago. I am amazed with the service we undergo from the antenna and the picture quality.