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Posted by NunYa Bidness on 12/10/05 16:24
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:53:21 -0600, Tony Calguire
<calguire@tcfreenet.invalid> Gave us:
>Goro wrote:
>>
>>
>> News of the video bizarre: According to a just-released survey by
>> Scientific-Atlanta, millions of people who have HDTV sets apparently
>> think they are watching high definition television, but aren't. The
>> survey was spurred by an earlier Forrester Research projection that by
>> the end of the year some 16 million U.S. households will have HDTV
>> sets, but only seven million wll have HDTV reception. The Scientific
>> Atlanta survey found that, yes, some 49 percent of households were not
>> taking advantage of their HD equipment. About a quarter found that
>> their HD set itself provided better reception, without taking the
>> additional steps necessary to view HD. Eighteen percent said they
>> didn't even know needed additional equipment, such as a set-top box
>> or antenna. A quarter admitted they thought they were watching HD video
>> because, after all, the programs said at the beginning that they were
>> broadcast in HDTV.
>>
>
>
>This is sad but true. My sister went out and bought an "HDTV", and I
>was the one who had to break the news to her that the thing couldn't
>actually receive HDTV.
You're an idiot. If it WAS an HDTV, it can accept HDTV programming.
"receiving an HDTV signal" is pretty ambiguous.
>
>I mean, think about that for a moment... they sell TVs that CAN'T
>receive TV broadcasts.
You need a tuner. The TV is a mere monitor. The tuner you choose
to use depends on what YOU want. So the TV industry doesn't put them
IN the TV.
> They actually sell TVs that can't receive TV
>broadcasts.
Yer an idiot. Those are usually called monitors and they were
around, even in the days of NTSC and CRT monitors. The tuner is a
separate entity, even if you have been used to it being included in
the TV set.
> If that isn't the best example of how badly the FCC has
>mishandled the digital transition, and how they have allowed the
>consumer electronics industry to get away with murder, I don't know what
>is.
You're a total fucking retard. You know NOTHING about it. That
retarded remark proves it.
>
>Apparently, you need a special external receiver to pick up HDTV
>broadcasts.
No.... Really?
> Do you think you could walk into a store and buy one?
Yep. Been there... did that.
> Do
>you think they could advertise these things in their Sunday ads
>alongside those HDTVs that can't receive HDTV?
They count on folks that have enough money to buy such an item to
have a LITTLE bit more than a mere two synapses firing when they
arrive to make a purchase.
> My local Best Buy
>doesn't even carry them! Or, at least they said they "forgot to order
>them". I went down to Radio Shack and CompUSA, and they didn't have
>them, either.
WalMart has HDTV tuners. Ever browse the online world? They are
everywhere. Get over it.
>ComCast wants $5 a month for an HDTV converter, they don't carry all the
>local OTA DTV stations, they don't carry all the mulicast channels from
>those DTV stations that they do carry, and all the HDTV cable channels
>are on another, more expensive digital tier.
>
>The moral of the story is: DO NOT buy a new TV until April of 2007!!!
The fact of this STORY is that you're an utter fucking retard!
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