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Shopping at a Best Buy store in 2005
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Күн бұрынFun video of people shopping inside a Best Buy for video games, TV's etc...
#bestbuy
@NoizyBoyUS Жыл бұрын
Crazy to think that generally everything in that store, is now obsolete.
@pureluck8767 Жыл бұрын
I know weird
@Aurora666_yt Жыл бұрын
😭
@bobd9868 Жыл бұрын
Yep, pretty much the whole store in a landfill now. The TV prices are insane especially considering the size.
@georgeperez1839 Жыл бұрын
My family is still using a Dyson vacuum they got at best buy in 05 so there's one thing lol
@madgodzilla12465 Жыл бұрын
@@bobd9868 Really puts into perspective how wasteful we are as a society and how disposable consumer goods really have become.
@loonman555 2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't shown in the vid, but I miss when PC games came in cardboard boxes and opened on the front to show more pictures of the game and what it was all about. Was one of my favorite parts about going to Best Buy back then as a kid
@cress_albane Жыл бұрын
I miss that so freaking much
@rugbyplayer9100 Жыл бұрын
Yes!! I remember the original Sims games came in those cardboard boxes. Added more excitement to buying the game
@Red-Pilled-CAT Жыл бұрын
Now it’s all corporatized and microtransactioned to death.
@nchamp1991 Жыл бұрын
Every time I’m in our bestbuy or Sams club or the Ollie’s that was once our circuit city I go and stand in the old games location and it’s like a movie scene where some elderly folk is seeing the ghosts of their past around them.
@TheBeardedBrooke Жыл бұрын
Yes and the amazing smell of opening them.
@Maaaatttttt 7 ай бұрын
This is where my brain is stuck. About 2005.
@Superdimensional Жыл бұрын
I worked at Best Buy from 2001-2009 probably my favorite job of my life, I learned so much there and really molded me into who I am now, today. I still enjoy shopping there and am Amazed people I worked with are still there!! Thanks for the memories, this is all in my mind and heart forever.
@vampirerobot Жыл бұрын
Wow. Sounds like a great job by the way you write. Must have been fun for sure.
@Superdimensional Жыл бұрын
@@vampirerobot fond fond memories!
@deusprogrammer_thekingofspace Жыл бұрын
I worked there from about 1999 to 2001. I was always stuck in the damned printer aisle of PCHO. But damn if I wouldn't do it again. That was a fun job.
@drsmack3000 Жыл бұрын
wow that's cool I always wanted to work there. How much did they pay per hour back then?
@Avenue77 Жыл бұрын
@@Superdimensional In those years of you working there you were a legend man
@jdk5281 2 жыл бұрын
This feels nostalgic sort of. I worked there for about a year in 2006, so this looks just how I remember it.
@mstrikesback168 Жыл бұрын
remember when they had stations to pick your own songs and burn them to a CD? good times
@Puretea4711 Жыл бұрын
same layout in all stores back in the days?
@dco2006 Жыл бұрын
@@Puretea4711 The one in Mays Landing NJ in 2005 looked nothing like this
@NJASZN Жыл бұрын
Used to go here every Tuesday for new CD releases 😢 I miss those days. You could scan a CD underneath the listening station and listen to 30 second samples of each song on the album. I miss those days…
@jpong122 2 ай бұрын
That slipped my mind for so many years. Definitely remember how awesome that was.
@TYSniper Жыл бұрын
The 37" hdtv for $2500 was a great refresher. I almost forgot how expensive everything was at that time. Then again, they were made of good quality materials that can last a long time too.
@RandomTechWZ Жыл бұрын
Its more like it was the newest tech at the time so its going to be expensive.
@thegamingchef3304 Жыл бұрын
@@RandomTechWZ Right, those TVs were actually crap. I guarantee nobody still has one like they had old tube tvs from the 70s 😂. Those Tvs burned out or easily got fried during a thunderstorm. You are absolutely right, it was the new technology at the time. I know many things were better back then, but to try to say they were made of better stuff is why they were more expensive is a reach that's not even true. I remember Portable CD players were like 800-900 dollars when they first came out. Every new technology starts out expensive.
@TheBrandonn Жыл бұрын
@@thegamingchef3304 My mother still has her plasma panasonic 43 inch tv from 2007, other than a bit of burn in on super light scenes, it works great
@Arkiasis Жыл бұрын
Not really, those TV's are all junk now if they still even work.
@JRBowling1997 11 ай бұрын
@Arkiasis but it was pretty damn good for it's time tho
@HyperionZero 9 ай бұрын
If you notice, everything seems so much calmer, people going out their way to mind their own lives, no loud music every 10 minutes blasting off. What a time to be alive.
@Oni64 Жыл бұрын
2005-2006 the last years of the mighty CRT TV's. At the time they had way better picture quality than the LCD's and even some Plasma;'s. But they also had the limitation of 1080i max res and the weight of them lol
@vampirerobot Жыл бұрын
Interesting...I miss those old crt TV's...I have a terrible time with the volume with flat screens especially with music in the background.
@Oni64 Жыл бұрын
@@vampirerobot Yea CRT's also have a good sound speakers, especially the Sony ones.
@mstrikesback168 Жыл бұрын
so thats what non-flat screen tvs are called! CRT. Thanks I didnt know that! I despise flat screens and now I know what to look for. Ebay, here I come No more scrolling throught 1000s of TVs online trying to find a non-flat screen.
@thedirtybubble9613 Жыл бұрын
You mean the last real TVs?
@ilove-tv2jm Жыл бұрын
CRTs were still being made as late as 2008 and people owned them well into the early 2010s.
@tsurek Жыл бұрын
The cashier looked more genuine than cashiers nowadays.
@zacharywilson8353 8 ай бұрын
In 2005 I walked into a Best Buy and bought my first Desktop along with WoW after working and saving for an entire summer. What a great memory.
@MarkMeadows90 Жыл бұрын
My dad bought his first "higher quality" video camera at Best Buy in 2005. Old Canon handheld camera. We bought our first video camera in 1994 when they were beginning to shrink down in size. The Canon one was a huge improvement in video quality. We still have both cameras, but now he has a Canon 1080P HD camera that he's owned since 2015.
@tayjones8552 2 жыл бұрын
2 years before smartphones and tablets hit the market. These are the days of flip phones!
@Oni64 Жыл бұрын
back then the Motorola Razr's were the shit just before the Iphone's came out.
@mstrikesback168 Жыл бұрын
the decline of civilization really began with the iphone and apps going viral in 2011.
@yeahokjosh Жыл бұрын
@@mstrikesback168 True I didnt get my first iphone til 2012
@enigmathegrayman2953 Жыл бұрын
The Motorola Razor flip phone from 2005
@productive23 9 ай бұрын
Every time I go to buy best I watch this beforehand lol
@gforce97 Жыл бұрын
2005 is like the year the flat screen TVs became more market popular, the plasma display i think
@BudFuddlacker 4 ай бұрын
Yes, then LCD’s a year or two later
@peteryeti9974 2 жыл бұрын
$2499.99 for 37" Flat screen LCD, wow.
@SirDinielFortesque 2 жыл бұрын
And here my 2015 Samsung 37" Flat Screen only cost me 10 bucks at a Goodwill.
@ferniem95 Жыл бұрын
Exactly!! I remember my aunt purchasing a 32” Samsung back in 2008 if I recall for about $2k those we’re insane prices back in the day. Last I purchased a 43” Samsung 4K QLED UHD for $298 @ Walmart & man times have changed lol
@devintrejos6263 Жыл бұрын
$2500 can get you so much more TV now and qled
@robloxvids2233 Жыл бұрын
And people today complain about wages lol. I remember when TVs cost thousands, and weighed 200 pounds.
@dco2006 Жыл бұрын
In 2005, only one person I knew had an HDTV and his family was rich who owned a campground. I got my first HDTV in 2007 for $1300. Still works to this day.
@SirDinielFortesque 2 жыл бұрын
Hard to think that the Xbox 360 is a 16 year old system now.
@MarkMeadows90 Жыл бұрын
I still play mine occasionally. Still a fine working first gen Elite model.
@ferniem95 Жыл бұрын
17****
@jameshihihin1320 Жыл бұрын
17.5*
@jonboy_13 Жыл бұрын
18
@TYSniper Жыл бұрын
@@MarkMeadows90 I still have my Halo 3 edition that I play every now and then. It had the red ring of death many years ago but was promptly fixed.
@metalgrinch Жыл бұрын
This is when Best Buy was a TRUE electronics geek store. I can't get over the amount of general stock at the place, like there's so much multimedia and just geek stuff everywhere! All about video games, TVs, multimedia, computers, stereos. None of this kitchen appliances, home survailence, and smartwatch bullsh*t you see nowadays. All this bullsh*t on cards and not physical media. I wish Best Buy would go back to this format. Where they weren't tailoring to moms.
@leftyfourguns 7 ай бұрын
We loved going into the special "Designer" high end TV and audio section that was set up like a living room, and just enjoy being blown away by how good it all looked and sounded even if we'd never be able to afford it in our life times lol
@GalaxyBeto Жыл бұрын
It's so weird looking into the past 2005 was the year I was born
@azariacba Ай бұрын
It was a heck of a year; I’ll tell you that.
@ecoRfan Жыл бұрын
Opening shot of the digital cameras brings back memories. I spent most that year on the market for one. The flatscreen TV’s also reminds how modern it all felt at the time.
@Thatguy101987 2 жыл бұрын
Other than the products on the shelves, it doesn't feel like a whole lot has changed about Best Buy over the years.
@xpensfanatic2009 Жыл бұрын
Most big box stores have essentially been the same for as long as I can remember, and I'm in my early thirties.
@tsurek Жыл бұрын
Now they’re more empty (less people) and now they have cell phones, cell phone accessories, no music CDs, and booths for different brands.
@ericzaldivar2205 10 ай бұрын
Dvd section has been greatly reduced if non-existent. But yes, the store itself looks the same. Wal-Mart and Target have looked the same for thirty years now.
@RustyNickels 7 ай бұрын
@ericzaldivar2205, Best Buy stopped selling DVD's and Blu-rays at the beginning of this year (2024).
@lovelydolltime8006 4 ай бұрын
@@RustyNickels They really shot themselves in the foot here with their latest decision to stop selling physical media entirely.
@Stealth87 2 жыл бұрын
I started at BB in 2004, this is a trip back to the past
@streetfightertwo 7 ай бұрын
*I miss the DVD/CD section at BEST BUY used to be straight fire* 🔥💯🔥
@nathanmcdonald610 Жыл бұрын
Weird, I have a memory from when I was 17 in 2005 going into a Best Buy and playing on a display Xbox 360. So strange that was almost 20 years ago.
@colemandeitz7302 Жыл бұрын
I started their in the fall of 2004 I was 19 years old and worked their till December 2007 man that was a flash back
@kenaudirsch7172 Жыл бұрын
I went there recently to get a new phone and had to wait for the guy in the cell phone department to get off his phone before he even looked up to acknowledge that I was standing there waiting. Awesome times we live in.
@billspangler2685 2 жыл бұрын
That early bluetooth headset at 1:10 is a blast from the past...
@SirDinielFortesque 2 жыл бұрын
In a way I wish they where still that size because these days if you drop t he one you have outside you will have a hard time finding it because there so small.
@Decoy007 2 жыл бұрын
Looks like a raptor claw.
@MarkMeadows90 Жыл бұрын
I remember when they were shaped like that. Some people wore those call center representative style headsets for a while until they became more sleek in size. I had a Bluetooth set for my first flip phone back in 2006.
@mstrikesback168 Жыл бұрын
@@SirDinielFortesquegood point. you could probably get one on ebay.
@DavesLife100 Жыл бұрын
I almost walked out of a bestbuy the other day because there were barely anyone working and I couldn't find help with finding something.
@icantw8 7 ай бұрын
2005 was almost 20 years ago. Looking back at this video, it seemed like it happened not even 5 years ago. How strange.
@juniorcamacho6477 Жыл бұрын
Going to best buy for the video games as a kid was like heaven. It felt incredibly rewarding when my father would buy me a video game or a brand new video game console from there. my father felt same when buying blu ray movies or a new surround system lol
@brianesque 11 ай бұрын
This was such a trip, thanks for sharing. I was a junior in college in 2005, bought a PSP for my younger brother from BestBuy when they first came out. I remember demoing new PS2 games on display when I had the chance.
@zxmoore1 Жыл бұрын
2005 customer tries to play with an Xbox 360 and someone says "It's Broke". Me watching this in 2023..............of course it is.
@Aurora666_yt Жыл бұрын
Back when digital cameras 📸 were displacing film cameras. Nowadays iphones are displacing digital cameras. 😔
@brobrofog Жыл бұрын
I miss the days where companies would actually put effort into their stores
@AllBlakkEverything 2 жыл бұрын
What a time man.
@Aurora666_yt Жыл бұрын
This was just a few months after my parents bought our first "flat panel" LCD computer. 🖥️ I was intrigued by how flat it was.
@adzooks44 Жыл бұрын
Napster CD @8:52! - a few years after Napster's heyday, but still fun to see.
@zxmoore1 Жыл бұрын
Thats right folks, a 37" LCD HDTV cost $2500 in 2005, which is equivalent to about $3,900 in 2023.
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
Plasma..not LCD
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
Plasma was great...LCD is garbage>>>Now OLED is great again
@SteveBMayer 14 күн бұрын
I grew up here. Feels like an entire world that just doesnt exist anymore
@glh2000 Жыл бұрын
R.I.P. the 00's as my Main childhood (2001-2016)
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
Im so sorry about that..Truly a horrible time to be a kid.
@glh2000 Жыл бұрын
@@thetruthhurts7500 2016?
@beavismcdeavis142 11 ай бұрын
@@glh2000yeah pretty bad, people knew where to go potty before then, you had two options and the one you went in was determined by what you had in your pants at birth.
@thedirtybubble9613 Жыл бұрын
2005. I was a freshman in high school and then a sophomore. Better times.
@yeahokjosh Жыл бұрын
same
@h3cz_ Жыл бұрын
I was just starting the first grade 😂😂😂
@vincentseidle954 Жыл бұрын
I was a junior in 2005. Definitely miss these days
@candy2325 Жыл бұрын
Same here 🎉
@thedirtybubble9613 Жыл бұрын
@@candy2325 Class of 2008. 👍
@Anarchist86ed 2 жыл бұрын
$2500 for an HDTV. I just bought one for $70.
@MarkMeadows90 Жыл бұрын
That's about how much you would pay for a decent one back then. Plasma TVs were expensive back then. Some people chose to buy rear projection TVs for almost half the cost.
@dco2006 Жыл бұрын
Yeah. 2005 ... No one had an HDTV. 2023. Who doesn't?
@Anarchist86ed Жыл бұрын
@@dco2006 the thing is you don't need one. Cord cutters like me stick to free service. If you get an HDMI signal converter you can use a Roku or whatever on an SD, and in most cases that's perfectly fine since the free stuff is not typically HD anyway. I use my laptop and phone for everything so it doesn't matter.
@dco2006 Жыл бұрын
@@Anarchist86ed you're the ignoring that it's 18 years later saying the difference in prices as if there's any point to it. I was alive in 2005 nobody used the term cord-cutting and maybe one person out of all of the people that I knew had an HDTV and they were a rich family who owned a campground. Of course they're going to be more expensive back then when they were newer and nobody had them.
@Anarchist86ed Жыл бұрын
@@dco2006 Talk about not getting it. 🙄
@mstrikesback168 Жыл бұрын
Love it! Do you have any Best Buy footage of when they had those computer stations where you could pick any songs and burn them to a CD? It was awesome. You could make your own compiliation CD.
@Aurora666_yt Жыл бұрын
I always thought of flat televisions as a late 00s/early 2010s-present thing, but this video proves that they are no novelty. Apparently all the new models were flat as early as 2005. Not a single CRT tv on display. I guess I'm stuck in the 90s.
@94hawaiijedi 9 ай бұрын
It's so crazy that plasma TVs used to cost $2,500. Now I can get like a regular flat screen TV for under $500 bucks.
@GhostOfJulesVerne Жыл бұрын
We had KZfaq in 2005. It's not that long ago. Two years before the iPhone.
@mariposamoreno Жыл бұрын
it has been almost 20 years 😂
@LairdProductions 4 ай бұрын
I was only a couple years old in 2005. My first console was the ps2 and that spongebob game at 3:36 was one of my first games. It's crazy how times can change so fast.
@deathadder9737 Жыл бұрын
One thing I think would be really cool to see is StarCraft 1 brood war launch date at Best Buy. Lines out the door in 1998
@askedkedeldeif 11 ай бұрын
I miss these times
@j.alfonsoromero1483 9 ай бұрын
Jesus I remember that year going to best buy to buy a tv but they were too damn expensive!
@forkview4844 7 ай бұрын
the good days when best buy actually carried physical media
@zachfenton608 Жыл бұрын
Recipet prints faster than at my store in 2022
@vampirerobot Жыл бұрын
You must really hate your pos equipment at Dunham's.
@JerryTVong 2 ай бұрын
It's just insane how dead it feels inside to shop at Best Buy 19 years later.
@thuglifeVol2 2 ай бұрын
That’s funny, I worked at Best Buy in 2013 and they still had the exact same POS system lol
@Domanator316 Жыл бұрын
3:13 That SOCOM:CA warning just gave me the shivers. 😅
@adrianbrown2957 Жыл бұрын
I just bought an charger from Best Buy here in munster Indiana, we have them everywhere throughout Indiana.
@METALRON Жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the "Shopping on Amazon 2023" video in 20 or 30 years from now.
@deedee.796 Жыл бұрын
I think I might start screen recording when I buy stuff online so I can go back in 30 years and see what I purchased🤣
@abdullahyahia1985 Жыл бұрын
Digital Camera era, didn't last long after. I think it was around the time when LCD screens became famous. Anyway, it's been 18 years since then,i mean do u believe it?😢
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
its yesterday,,unless you are 4 yrs old
@zacharywilson8353 8 ай бұрын
Wow. Seeing Shadow of the Colossus on the shelf for sale brought back some fond memories. Also I bought my first HP Media Center desktop this year. Such a cool design in my opinion. I wish some electronic design sensibilities could go back to these times.
@jgg204 8 ай бұрын
I worked at Best Buy as a kid in 2002. It was so much fun.
@SP-nt4sr 8 ай бұрын
It's like looking at a modern day Goodwill or thrift store.
@cjnola Жыл бұрын
This was when it was normal to just go in the store and buy movies, mfs be looking at you weird if you do this now
@brandonlongwell8093 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Can you do please Shopping to buy Baby Einstein Products at Target in Christmas 2006.
@maxwillson Жыл бұрын
2:10 - You gotta buy the table, this and that ahahaha!
@SpringBlossomGames Жыл бұрын
I see Soul Calibur 3!!! 😍
@leftyfourguns 7 ай бұрын
What a coincidence KZfaq should recommend this video to me on the same day Best Buy announces they're removing all physical media from their stores. End of a very long and prosperous era. The future of entertainment seems rather grim.
@Sohailali1 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Loved going there! I wanted a camcorder so badly in those days!
@put04life14 4 ай бұрын
That’s crazy to think that old couple are probably dead now. Wow 2005 seems like it was yesterday!!!😮
@hiker64 Жыл бұрын
Hey question... Are these videos just vintage B-Roll footage? I love them all as they show subtle nuances of what stores were like decades ago. These are really important time capsules of life in a retail setting and am so glad they are still around.
@tristangrice2064 8 ай бұрын
The TiVo Boxes were my all-time favorite at best buy.
@XxsoonerbornxX 7 ай бұрын
The world before the iPhone changed it forever.
@totoroben 7 ай бұрын
Plasma screens were a game changer. A TV you could mount to your wall. The fact that TVs are thinner now is of less importance than the form factor of a flat screen TV to begin with.
@jaxonedwardson458 Жыл бұрын
is it just me or i actually like best buy more back than todays best buy
@TaylorMMontgomery Жыл бұрын
The old Avaya phones ringing in the background 😭 I miss working at best buy in the 2000s
@Max1234qwert 7 ай бұрын
2:31 Gromit moment
@jameshihihin1320 Жыл бұрын
This feels like yesterday.
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
Thats because it was yesterday
@jameshihihin1320 Жыл бұрын
@@thetruthhurts7500 well damn, how old are you?
@pineappleTARDIS Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, classic footage of the Dad Stance in Best Buy 2:04
@cjnola Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@jeremyroskes5391 3 ай бұрын
Best Buy feels so empty without DVDs
@jesiel7379 4 күн бұрын
That was back then when Best Buy have stuff to buy. Now most of their shelves are empty. Yo go to the store to buy something and you may end up buying it online because they don't have it.
@maxwillson Жыл бұрын
It's so interesting to people watch, nothing changed ahahaha!
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
Its nice to see nothing has changed
@pinstripedynasty6117 10 ай бұрын
Best Buy used to he so amazing. How I miss those days, when I was a kid, it was so much more fun going to the mall and stores. Now everyone is pathetically lazy and sits at home and uses amazon
@thedaveinator Жыл бұрын
Rumor has it that Xbox red-ringed the following day.
@Xplorewme 11 ай бұрын
I used to buy my World of Warcraft time cards there in 2005 😅
@augieh6146 6 ай бұрын
That’s when it was good. 06 was the last true year the 90s were prominent.
@365tonkatruckfit2 Жыл бұрын
TONY HAWKS’S AMERICAN WASTELAND!!!!!! The game I never got!!😔 Also the Xbox 360 at (6:02) in 2005!!!! As kids we were still trying to get the first Xbox. The Xbox 360 was rare and was not really advertised. All we seen was the PSP.
@TheMustangDog 10 ай бұрын
I was 7 in 2005 I remember buying a PlayStation 2 that year. 😊
@kennerfee100 Ай бұрын
Your family must've been rich if they were giving you $200 in that year alone.
@Aurora666_yt Жыл бұрын
It's a TIME CAPSULE! 🤩
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
Not really
@kennerfee100 Ай бұрын
0:28 back when those TVs cost more than a Kidney transplant.
@lovelydolltime8006 4 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure the camera shown at 0:03 is the same camera I own (Kodak Easyshare Z730). :)
@9852323 Жыл бұрын
I prefer the old technology.
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
That might be the dumbest thing ive ever heard...
@mitchell.9632 Жыл бұрын
Cashier cashing people out. On the TV's this era is different than your 1970s and 1980s video in the fact that back then they had broadcast TV on. Here the bigger companies here had they own promotions on the display televisions.
@adwarnissan8990 5 ай бұрын
Crazy to think that generally everything in the store were gone its now having tablets and having MacBooks there were PowerBook g4 there it was better and I miss 2005
@kehreazerith3016 Жыл бұрын
TV's have gotten so dirt cheap now days, 4k TVs only a few hundred dollars. While a standard definition flat screen back then was easily 2000-3000 dollars, Found one of those 37 inch LCD TV's for $20, in the video it shows one being $2500+
@joshstephens3650 7 ай бұрын
I was 28 when this video was taken.
@AO-mx9tk 6 ай бұрын
I was 27. Where the time go? :/
@The_Real_RG3 10 ай бұрын
Worked for BBY from 1995-2005. Fun times
@ProJatior 7 ай бұрын
The HDCRTs still look good I’m sure. I can get so many of those games so cheap and still want them. I gotta go thrifting soon.
@bStylesf Жыл бұрын
Which state are these recorded in? Generally curious.
@thetruthhurts7500 Жыл бұрын
A state of delusion
@bStylesf Жыл бұрын
@@thetruthhurts7500 ha, fair enough
@jgg204 8 ай бұрын
You know you're a Gen X or millennial if you remember this is how you bought your games and music. Extra bonus points if you bought minidisc there too
@mindielefswatwfr-cs6oy Жыл бұрын
Wow 2005 was something else lcd and plasma tv's were expensive back then cheaper option would of been tube tv's some had that Flat tube tv thing along with the HD coming out and most of those computers with the towers and converting to LCD were something else and now its all in one or just get smaller pc or better yet a laptop or chrome back these or Apple laptops. Those camcorders are something else 569.00 for that man and they were recording in DVD back then man now you can just record with your phone and DVD"S were insane now today you just stream it or watch it on the app man a lot has changed too and now today you can even get 58 inch tv with the apps included for about $258 or $299 man what a complete change from now and way back in the 2000's era.