Posted by Tony Calguire on 12/11/05 04:04

David Levy wrote:
>
> Tony Calguire wrote:
>
> > My sister went out and bought an "HDTV",
>
> No, she didn't (assuming that your claim that "the thing couldn't
> actually receive HDTV" is true). She bought an "HDTV monitor," also
> referred to as "HD-ready."
>

That particular distinction might be significant to the drooling early
adapters, but it is completely lost on the vast majority of people who
"watch TV" on devices called "TVs", and have never, for the last 60
years, had to worry about whether or not the TV actually received TV
broadcasts.


> > I mean, think about that for a moment... they sell TVs
> > that CAN'T receive TV broadcasts. They actually sell TVs
> > that can't receive TV broadcasts.
>
> Are you also offended by the fact that "they sell computer monitors
> that can't run operating systems"?


That is a false premise. Computers and monitors have always been
marketed as separate units. The first computers were even sold without
monitors; you were expected to hook those computers up to your TV set.
(and then, tune your TV set to channel 3, because those old TVs could
actually receive channel 3!)

TVs, for the last 60 years, have been sold with tuners inside of them.
It was a foregone conclusion that the device being sold could actually
receive the signals it was intended to display. Although apparently, it
was not as foregone as I had thought, because the consumer electronics
industry has managed to convince so many of you that it's now "cool" to
have separate boxes.

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