BETTER ALL THE TIME: Consumer Reports calls this TV among the best they’ve ever tested — hey, that’s what they said about mine when I bought it two years ago, but it’s not even on the list anymore — but what’s really impressive is how much cheaper the ones a bit further down the line have gotten. This Vizio 47″ TV is about half the price I paid for my 46″ JVC a couple of years ago, and gets high marks. And I bought this 42″ Panasonic plasma for our bedroom a few months ago for under a thousand bucks at H.H. Gregg. Interestingly, though its HD picture isn’t nearly as good as the JVC’s, non-HD channels look much better on the Panasonic. And looking at this list, I see a lot of HDTVs for under a thousand, and some under five hundred. Anyway, here’s to wishing that everything got better and cheaper the way that electronics do . . . .