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ROTFLMAO! Really? Oh! I can't breathe!

Mike, when was the last time you "went cheap" and how did that make you feel?

I'm gonna be giggling about that one for days.

Hey, some of us can only afford the cheap stuff from time to time... For me, that is my seats. I would love to have been able to throw about $4500 + shipping into two rows of 4 seats, but I am still choking on the $8500 for the carpeting that we want for our basement.

Nick, I totally understand. I'm in the same boat, except I don't even have the money for the carpet at the moment.

Mike just doesn't have a good history with "restraint".

Hey, I'm 'frugal'. It's not like I'm out buying MacIntosh stuff, (not that I could even consider or afford stuff that expensive). But one thing I've learned with furniture, is that you really do get what you pay for. So it's either go cheap with the expectation that it'll fall apart in a couple years and need to be replaced, or move up a bit and buy something that will last for a decade or longer. In Nick's case, buying 8 seats is downright expensive. I'm glad I only have three to worry about....

i have a question for you guys looking into hometheater seating...


What is the deal with electric motorized seats? i would view that as un-necessary. An added expense, as well as an expensive item that can break in the future... Why not the age tested steel braided cable?

I love to see the people not used to my living room sofa push the mechanical button that releases the foot rest, only to watch them wiggle all around before they figure out how to make the foot rest pop out. Electric would solve this problem.

Electric recline is so that you can get the seat in the exact right reclining position as desired. Manual is fairly reclined or not reclined...

With the motorized recliner, you have infinite control over the amount of recline. Most, if not all recliners with manual recline are all or nothing. Some of the euro's are much better in this regards.

So I have one more on the list. IMG Norway. I can fit four if I go with them, as the euro's are a bit narrower. I have a few Ekornes chairs and love them. Kinda like Volvo seats.

http://www.imgcomfort.com/ProductsList/Home-Theatre.aspx

Yeah, Mike, but if you buy seats with the capability of being motorized, you buy seats that are capable of 'sploding.

With our manual Palliser recliners I can recline it to pretty much anywhere in between and it stays there. I did have to try several different makes & models first, though. As you say, many of them are all or nothing.

Not sure if it's relavent, but mine are the individual ones, not the HT w/cup holder ones you see "grouped" together.