I’m too young to remember actual tv prices of old, but they surely have to be less than they are now. The prices for lcd tvs today are astronomical! It boggles my mind that television prices (and cable service too) have appeared to double in a blink of an eye. Yeah I’m probably one of the biggest television addict’s you’ll ever meet (we’re talking 8-10 hours a day if I didn’t have to work), but the idea of dropping 2k on a piece of technology still irks me.

I know that it’s a luxury investment, one can live without a Samsung Series 6 LCD TV. But with every tv show being broadcast in HD, I feel the urge to buy an HDTV more than ever! Since the stock market is in the crapper, maybe they’ll be extra cheap this holiday season. Fingers crossed.

I just remembered that Amy Poehler made a joke about a 150 inch plasma television on “Weekend Update”! She cracked that they were released just in time for no one to afford them (since we’re in a financial crisis). Turns out, she is absolutely correct. Panasonic’s 150″ plasma screen television is rumored to cost over $150,000 bucks!

The tv aka “Life Wall” is less than one inch thick. It boasts that the plasma screen uses 50% LESS power with the new double luminance efficiency feature. It has a resolution of 2160×4096 pixels, which is 4x the resolution of a typical 1080i flat screen television. And apparently it uses 220 volts, which means you probably can’t run it in your home without owning a small portion of your city’s power grid!

Panasonic now holds the record for “world’s largest plasma display”. You can find more screenshots of the 150″ TV on Gizmodo. They got to take an up-close and personal tour of these sets at CSE 2008 in January.

Luckily, there are still normal sized (and priced) plasma televisions available on the market for the rest of us.