Aren't most HDTV over $150? That's what I would consider affordable, considering I bought a standard TV for $80 in 2006.
I'm pretty sure that I saw a lot of standard TVs go on sale at that time, as they were pushing HDTVs because of the then upcoming switch to all-digital.
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