Various internet shopping sites tell me that you can get a 40+inch flat screen HDTV for about $450. My memory could be faulty, but I'm reasonably sure that's about what the 19" color TV my parents bought in 1980 cost. Of course $450 then is the equivalent of about $1200 now, but even in the Strapping Young Buck era I don't think the possession of a color TV was seen as some sort of display of obscene wealth.
Still I imagine the ZOMG FLAT SCREEN TV IS IN THE HIZZZHOUSE will long be held up as PROOF that the poor are NOT POOR.
