(sick today with sore throat. ouch. late posting, but got lots of sleep! :-)
You may have seen the Philips ad where a couple with a big flat panel TV try placing it in various spots around the house and end up putting it on the ceiling above their bed. That got me thinking about how flat panel displays are changing home decor and furniture design. With an entertainment center, you’re usually setting your television on a shelf or you have a big standalone TV. I suspect flat panel TVs are either hung on the wall or stand up like flat panel monitors. And the entertainment center, if you have one, still needs to have some depth for the A/V equipment. Or perhaps they’ll start designing A/V equipment sideways and heavily market flat electrostatic speakers and one day all your audio/video (and probably computer/Internet) stuff will be sitting right up against the wall. More room is always good! I’m wondering how much my cat will hate me if I replace my warm, just-the-right-size-for-sleeping-on computer monitor with a flat panel.