Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/20/07 21:15

ninphan wrote:
>
> Aside from that, this Christmas is when J6P will be picking up an
> HDTV, not picking up a high definition player.

Exactly:
J6P and Smuggy F. Warwhiner (the cynical evil brother of J6P, who prides
himself on his initials) both say "Who cares about the next disk,
there're only 35 sets out there anyway!"
But this is a special case as from 90's DVD, as the public now has to be
sold TWO new gizmos at once that they've previously not been acquainted
with, and in sequence--The horse has to come before the cart, and the
screen has to come before the player.

And grownups may buy new toys every Christmas-sales rush, but when those
toys start in the $700's, they usually buy ONE toy.
And it's more likely to be the more Best Buy demonstratable one that
shows football games you *don't* have to replace libraries for, which
they imagine will alone be enough of a cable headache (aside from the
fact that they now think they have to spring for the DirecTV satellite
service that BB keeps throwing at them)...And that's leaving aside all
those misread panic headlines, where somebody in the paper told them
their old TV set now has only a year to live.

And why is a Q4'07 boom in set sales important (apart from making
production more mainstream and lowering the price)?...It starts the
addiction.
Which means J6P will *stop* asking "Why do we need hi-def disks?" (as he
can now turn on ABC for free and get an answer every night), haul off
and slap SFW in the head, and start reading up his homework for next
season's toy....Ah, sweet war-recruitment drive. ^_^

(One recent HDTV sales-promo doc that's been airing compared "invisible"
present-day network HDTV broadcast saturation to Walt Disney and Bonanza
selling color TV sets in the 60's--
And as one who can remember the first time he got to watch Wizard of Oz
on the family's first new color TV set as a kid, those comparisons are
so on the mark as to be scary.) 0_0''

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net

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