Despite the news all being about the end of the universe and how you're best off mashing up all your remaining money into papier-mache logs to burn to keep warm, one statistic on the UK economic trends chart is pointing UP - sales of HD LCD and plasmas TVs are still rocketing. Stats compiled by GFK for the BBC show that sales of fancy flat high-def TVs increased by nearly 11% in the last three months of 2008 compared to the same period of 2007, presumably because no one's got jobs any more, so sitting around in the house watching TV is now the main occupation of the UK population. And if you're going to do it, you might as well do it properly with a nice new 52" Samsung...