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The future of Displays!
gprime:
--- Quote from: Veinman on April 18, 2005, 01:49:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: gprime on April 18, 2005, 06:50:10 am ---If I had 3D vision, I would care ;)
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Unless you lost an eye, you do. ;D
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My avatar has a very close resemblance to myself ;)
Veinman:
Ahhh. ;) Look on the bright side, you have WAY more hair than me. ;D
JB:
--- Quote from: JODY on April 18, 2005, 01:23:32 pm --- A salesman at Ultimate Electronics flat out told me people were stupid for buying the regular sets. Guess lying and making people feel stupid are now a common sales tactic.
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I have to agree with him, actually. Though I wouldn't say stupid, just... uninformed.
NTSC broadcasts are set to die end of next year, with the bandwidth redistributed for other technologies. When that happens, your "standard" TV set will literally overnight become hopelessly obsolete. While "converter boxes" with DTV tuners that output NTSC signals will be available, you will get very little of DTV's advantages while using one. Sure you won't get snow or ghosting(unless the cable between your converer box and TV is picking up noise), but you'll gain none of the benefits of the higher resolutions, or interlaced scan capabilities.
It just doesn't make SENSE to buy anything but a digital set.
Digital-ready is a good second choice, but I WOULD NOT EVEN CONSIDER buying an NTSC-only set at this point in time.
And while you're doing that, you may as well pick up a set that can display ALL DTV broadcasts, instead of only some of them(DTV has multiple display settings, and HDTV is the highest-quality ones).
paigeoliver:
I am going to put my money on saying that it simply doesn't happen.
It will be pushed back, put off, or the stations will refuse to cooperate.
Anyway, not sure that part even matters, the percentage of US TV watchers actually using an antenna (actually receiving broadcast TV) is pretty darn small these days.
quarterback:
--- Quote from: JB on April 19, 2005, 12:11:06 am ---NTSC broadcasts are set to die end of next year, with the bandwidth redistributed for other technologies. When that happens, your "standard" TV set will literally overnight become hopelessly obsolete. While "converter boxes" with DTV tuners that output NTSC signals will be available, you will get very little of DTV's advantages while using one.
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