A TV designed to match your decor

(Credit: Chip Chick)

If you're not thrilled with the trend toward sandwich-board TV stands, you might want to consider something like this recent addition to Sony's Bravia line of LCD sets. The new Esprit TAV-L1 is built with a sliding decorative panel that hides a 32-inch TV behind it, in a variety of designs to suit your decor. Sony says the Esprit, which is available only in Europe at present, "fused cutting-edge European interior trends with the best of Sony's exclusive sound and vision technology." We like Chip Chick's description a lot better: "A force to be reckoned with."

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I see expensive repair bills in your future...

How long before that fancy elevating motor dies and you've got a really expensive piece of furniture that sounds like a muffled TV?