Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 11/27/07 00:46

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:43:45 -0600, robertking@potmail.com wrote:

>I've seen HDTVs in stores, restaurants, and many other places.

Oh boy!

>What's the big deal with them?

If you do not know, you are still too immature to understand.

> They are priced about 10 or more times
>the cost of a standard tv, and for what?

They are the next step in resolution. Oh, sorry... you'll have to go
look that word up.

> Their picture is no better
>than a newer standard tv.

You are incorrect.

> My 3 year old 21 inch flat screen tv with a
>CRT has just as good of a picture as any HDTV.

No... It doesn't.

> I paid $80 for it.

You should have saved it toward getting a nice HDTV.

>Worse yet, these HDTV's break up and get colored blotches all over the
>screen when the signal is a little weak.

So does your brain.

> My tv gets a little snow on
>weaker channels but that sure is easier to watch than blotches on the
>screen.

Maybe you're epileptic.

> HDTV is just a big scam to make lots of money from a tv.

Wrong. HDTV wasn't even conceived of by the TV makers.

>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.

You need to be raped with a big, splintery NYPD broomstick handle.

> When HDTVs come down to $50 I
>may buy one,

You'll die first then, idiot.

> till then, I'm happy with what I have, and even at $50,
>if it's blotchy,

You're a goddamned retard.

> I wont pay even one cent on it. There's a sucker
>born every minute,

Go look in the mirror, idiot.

> and they mist be the ones buying the HDTVs.

No. It is the idiots like you buying up old TVs that aren't going to
work any longer soon.

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