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Posted by NunYa Bidness on 11/03/05 21:00
On 3 Nov 2005 06:27:18 -0800, "Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> Gave us:
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>Nelly wrote:
>> GMAN wrote:
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>> > I get so sick of seeing people who get on food stamps just cause they can, and
>> > then have a 60" bigscreen in their double wide trailer.
>> >
>> >
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>> I agree. But then there are the real people who actually work hard,
>> budget, scrimp and save, just to buy a nice tv. What happens to those
>> people when everything changes over and they're stuck with what they
>> have because of the outrageous prices of hdtv sets. I'm not talking
>> 60". What's the average price? $1000? That's a hell of a lot of money
>> for some people. Especially if you're on a tight budget.
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>DVDPlayers when introduced were $1000. I bought my Sony DVP-s7000 for
>about $1200. That was around 1997 IIRC. I recall that even a few
>months later, there was a lower end Sony for about $600. I'm sure if
>you were looking at video then, it would have been "outrageous."
>
>Ditto HDTV. HOWEVER, it really is about time for tv signals to go
>digital. The difference is VHS and DVD. Alot of people didn't see the
>big deal about DVD until they got it. Then they realized that they
>couldn't "go back to VHS."
>
>Now, on the plus side, when the TV signals do go to purely digital, you
>won't have to chuck your tv. You can buy a D-to-A converter box and
>stil watch OTA tv. In fact, the US Gov't might even just GIVE you one
>(at a total expense of abotu $3B). If you are going to watch cable,
>you'll have to get (rent?) a STB to convert if you don't already.
>
>Still, the price is not too terrible. If you have no desire to see
>high def signal, no need to buy an HDTV.
>
>The people I really feel bad for are the ones that bought the HDTVs
>recently that didn't have HDMI (or HDCP), b/c they won't be getting the
>HD signal thru analog or via DVI without HDCP.
>
>-goro-
So my nice, huge Toshiba CRT that does both modes (NTSC 4:3 and
HDTV) won't. Oh well... the 25" will become my Third set, the
HDTV/NTSC combe set will be my second, and the new, not inordinately
priced compliant HDTV will be my main set. I wish they hadn't quit on
big glass though.
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