These protection devices are often suggested because there is a lot of hype behind them and they are cheap insurance. A surge protector is indeed cheap and so why not put one on? But a UPS for a television? This is only justified if you expect your utility company to really screw things up every now and then (like feeding 800 volts down your residential line by mistake). Can't help much with that judgement call, but where I live the only problems we have are outages due to storms which drop tree branches on the lines and break them sometimes. I don't need a UPS for this. And you certainly don't need a UPS just so that you can keep watching the TV. Better to turn on the radio or just go for a walk or pick up a book or something.