[BC] Digital TV

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

This is a particularly slippery slope. While radio boasts about 
broadcasting in "HD sonic clarity" while delivering no information to 
their listeners, TV can and has been eluding to a clearer picture and 
more content on their "additional channels". However, you are correct 
that no station is going to tell their viewers that their sets will be 
obsolete in a year or two. Just last evening at Wal-Mart I watched a 
couple in their 30's trying to decide which TV to buy. He wanted the 
$1,600 flat screen HD ready TV. She thought the 27" regular $199.00 
model was a better choice because it was cheaper. She won the argument. 
And when Oprah disappears from her screen in 2009, chances are it will 
be his fault.  

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN (really, don't laugh)
wbzq1300 at verizon.net



Wade Giddens wrote:

> I recently saw a news report about the transition to digital TV on a 
> local TV station.  The news report told about the end of analog TV, 
> the new digital TVs and the Digital-to-Analog Coverter Box Program:
>
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2007/DTVfinalrule_031207.htm
>
> I also heard Clark Howard mention over-the-air high definition 
> television.
>
> I would say that they need to let the general public know about this 
> transition.  This week I was talking to a well-educated man, who only 
> watches over-the-air television.  He had no idea that his analog TV 
> would be obsolete in a couple of years without a converter box.  Once 
> I told him what was available locally from Alabama Public TV on their 
> digital channels, he seemed really interested, but still wanted to 
> wait until the converter boxes get cheaper.  I think many people have 
> absolutely no idea what is going to happen to over-the-air TV.
>