Posted by Winfield on 11/26/07 22:32

On Thanksgiving day I saw a football game on my friend's Visio HD tv.
He had an outside antenna and was watching this HD channel over-the-air.

The picture quality was really good. It makes your 21" standard CRT-tv
picture look like a sick puppy.

Comparing standard DVD and high-definition playback is a bit different.
Not THAT huge of a difference.

Around Feburary 2008, everything is supposed to go digital in TV-land.
The blotchies are coming to your very own CHEAP-ass TV set, of which
you're so proud of. Since the convertor boxes are supposed to cost
~$40, what a great deal. Pixelated, colorful blotchies for only 40 bucks.

Can you beat that? :-P

winfield


robertking@potmail.com wrote:
> I've seen HDTVs in stores, restaurants, and many other places.
> What's the big deal with them? They are priced about 10 or more times
> the cost of a standard tv, and for what? Their picture is no better
> than a newer standard tv. My 3 year old 21 inch flat screen tv with a
> CRT has just as good of a picture as any HDTV. I paid $80 for it.
> Worse yet, these HDTV's break up and get colored blotches all over the
> screen when the signal is a little weak. My tv gets a little snow on
> weaker channels but that sure is easier to watch than blotches on the
> screen. HDTV is just a big scam to make lots of money from a tv.
> Apparently the companies were not making enough profit selling
> standard tvs so they came up with these crappy HDTVs so they could
> rape consumers out of their savings. When HDTVs come down to $50 I
> may buy one, till then, I'm happy with what I have, and even at $50,
> if it's blotchy, I wont pay even one cent on it. There's a sucker
> born every minute, and they mist be the ones buying the HDTVs.

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