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For the price of this piece of furniture you can buy a new 32" flat panel HDTV that makes this uneccessary. Anyone who buys this is CRAZY! Comon kids, get with the times.

What do you mean crazy? We have a 52" DLP TV that this will work perfectly for. We don't want some giant all-in-one entertainment center, but we do want something to hide away the A/V components and maybe hold some DVDs.

Good, well-made furniture costs money my friend. Get with the times and buy nice stuff that'll last!

Under $1000 is good for a modern tansu adaptation. These puppies are solid wood, meant to last.

Sure, there are cheaper options, and many are absolutely right for a given situation. (We have some IKEA along with our custom-built furniture.) But there's nothing crazy about the price here for what you get.

$1000 for a TV stand is crazy, period.

$1000 is a price point for an investment piece of furniture that should last a lifetime BUT will anyone need a TV cabinet in 10 years? DLP is a nice interim technology but will be a cul de sac on the road of TV history in 10 years. TVs are only going to get thinner and lighter. What will you do with your 'tansu' then? Toss a couple of your vintage West Elm cushions on it and sit their with your grandchildren reminiscing about the good old days when a real TV had some heft to it?

Hey JC, actually, we can also see using this as a sideboard, storage for dishes, games, kids' toys. . .

And AT:SF readers know that we try to blog both high and low products.

Of course you are correct as allways and I apologize for using the word "crazy". But anyone buying any television or computer furniture should keep in mind we are on the cusp of a fundamental technology shift. The days of the bulky CRT based technology are nearly over. Furniture designed to support these heavy pieces, be they entertaintment centers or computer desks, are radically changing for the better.

TVs that once required massive furniture to both hide and support them will soon be obsolete and with them go the enourmous entertainment centers and heavy duty computer workstations. Bigger TVs and computer screens will need almost emphemral support. One of the nicest new solutions was in fact showcased here on AT a while back. I wish I could remeber the link, perhgaps you can find it. It was an almost invisible wall unit that you could paint or paper to dissappear and held the requisite boxes and had a hidden cable channel up to the flat TV. It was a truly sublime and utterly modern solution.

Better use of smaller spaces is the future and I presume that's a large part of what your site is all about, so I say take the $980 for this nice but bulky and not very versatile piece and buy yourself a nice chunk of the future. And again sorry about the "crazy" that was inappropriate (I hadn't had coffee), yours as allways James.

We just put in a home theater and had built-ins put in to hide the DVD player, receiver, etc. We bought a flat screen LCD and it all looks very clean and uncluttered.

That being said, I bought this LCD bench from the Wooden Duck not to house electronics but for DVD storage and games. Also, it fit under my window and serves as a window seat. The web site listed at $850, but I got it for 30% off, since they had a sale. It's a solid piece of furniture and looks better outside than online. It's eco friendly too, since it's made from recycled teak.

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Oops, forgot to post the link for the LCD bench.

http://store2.thewoodenduck.com/itemcollection.phtml?id=238&familyid=IR-TM

So JC, because something will be obsolete in a decade I shouldn't get it now? If you're looking for crazy talk, that's it.

Use your imagination. If it becomes obsolete for my TV, I'll use it for stereo equipment, or as a sideboard for dishes, or as a dresser, or as whatever.

You keep buying $150 IKEA crap that you end up re-buying every 3 years after it falls apart. I'll buy something well made and stylish that I can keep forever.

I don't buy Ikea "crap" as you call it although Ikea makes some nice inexpensive stuff. I do buy things that will last me a lifetime and will be timeless. You can look at my stuff yourself on the link, I'm sure you'll enjoy saying something unpleasant about it.

I DO object to spending a lot of money on investment quality furniture that I will need to find a new use for in five years. That is EXACTLY why you buy attractive but inexpensive pieces like from Ikea so that when it becomes obsolete in five years it's no loss.

I do not think $1000 on a TV stand is a smart use of your money. For that $$$ you can buy something that really is timeless in both design and function and will outlast you. Most of my things have already been used a lifetime by someone else. That dearheart is value.