Disposable luxury?

Our 32'' flat screen TV has gone to a better place. Or something. In any case, it isn't turning on anymore. 

We tried everything we could think of (mostly the obvious, like changing the batteries in the remote, attempting to turn it on with the button on the side, plugging it into a different outlet, but also taking it apart - being careful not to shock ourselves from the capacitor to see if anything looked obviously burned out). We thought it might have gotten hit by a power surge, but the DVD player and other devices on the same power strip work, so yeah, it just up and died.

At the time we bought it, this Sharp Aquos cost us a non-inconsequential sum. It lived in our living room for a while and then lived in the basement when we upgraded to a 46''.  D thinks it the capacitor and claims that these things are now being built so that they are cheap and "disposable."Fixing it is pretty much impossible, or at least not cost effective, especially since a new TV will only set us back $200 or so.

It pretty much sat unused in the basement because when I exercise I listen or watch through a portable device. But a few days ago I wanted to watch an old DVD and was shocked that our old faithful TV wouldn't turn on. Suddenly the realization hit that we are a one-TV household (we kinda were already, since we never actually used the TV, but it was there just in case). So the question now is - how much are we willing to pay, if anything , to have a TV in the basement that we will barely use. Of course now that it's not there, I have all kinds of reasons to want to use it, all sorts of movies that I want to watch while using the treadmill and elliptical that, while the TV was working (or while I thought it was working) I never wanted to watch.

First world problems...yeah, I know...