From: Gray, T. <Tim...@ca...> - 2003-01-31 19:03:56
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Neil Said : >>Either way I don't like the >>fact that I have to get a 5 year loan to purchase a TV. That's just plain >>stupid. i agree, and being inside the TV-broadcast industry, I'm not looking to see HDTV becoming a viable decision for myself for at least 10 years. there are no HDTV dvd players, there is no HDTV DVD content (obviousally) but there is no plans by any company to even offer DVHS HDTV content. Here locally I have 3 HDTV off the air channels, but 90% of the time they only transmit in DTV/480p format that is only a line doubler running off of the regular network feed... and usually noone can tell the difference. HDTV was a great idea, but there is no way they will ever become mainstream with-in this decade. The consumers won't touch the monitors (as most HDTV TV's are not TV's they are monitors that require you to spend another $800.00 on the tuner and some channels require a different tuner as they follow the other standard) and if you can't view HD pre-recorded material what is the use? buy a good presentation projector and get better than your rich neighbors for 1/10th the price. it's like buying an IBM mainfraime computer for websurfing and word processing. Yeah it's cool to look at but 100% useless for a large majority of the people. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry nc...@co... http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ncherry/ (Text only) http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge) http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 |