Posted by Biz on 12/11/05 06:05

It so typical to blame everyone else for one's own shortcomings..Oh, I know,
you should sue, that would make it the Trifecta of American culture...


"Tony Calguire" <calguire@tcfreenet.invalid> wrote in message
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> Kimba W. Lion wrote:
> >
> > Tony Calguire <calguire@tcfreenet.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > >The moral of the story is: DO NOT buy a new TV until April of 2007!!!
> >
> > I agree with your rant--selling TVs without ATSC tuners is criminal. And
> > cable is hopeless. But you can get a complete HDTV now; no need to wait,
> > just pay attention to what you're buying.
>
>
> The price difference is huge... actual HDTVs are thousands of dollars,
> and they typically come only in big-screen sizes. The HDTV monitor my
> sister bought was $350 dollars at Target, and came in a nice, small
> kitchen countertop size.
>
> I should point out that this monitor does, in fact, have an NTSC tuner
> in it and can receive analog broadcasts. But the sticker on the front
> of it says "HDTV" in big letters and "monitor" below in tiny little
> letters.
>
> But my bigger concern is that if the FCC really, really wants this DTV
> transition to work, they're going to have to sell it to the kinds of
> people who don't make a distinction between "HDTV" and "HD monitors".
> The vast majority of TV viewers are not drooling technology fanboys;
> they go out and buy a tV and expect it to work.

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