5 signs you really need to buy a new TV

In the last 20 years, flatscreen TVs have gone from high-priced novelty item to household mainstay. Not even counting Black Friday, you can get perfectly acceptable TVs for just a couple hundred bucks, and really astounding ones for not much more. It's no secret that along the way, the flatscreen market has become absolutely saturated. This has lead to what I would call "feature jousting." Almost every year, flatscreen TVs ship with some new "must-have" feature: The ability to play 3D movies (including dork-tastic 3D glasses), or built-in web browsers and streaming apps, or remotes with built-in voice search.