SDTV? Where'd they go?!

[Steve 3.2]

Kwaad said:

I was at wal-mart the other day, and spent about 2 hours looking at their TVs. I was amazed I saw HDTVs from 200$ Up to 1500$. What amazed me more, was I saw a 42inch LCD HDTV for 950$. As I was leaving I noticed something major. The smallest TVs were HDTVS. The biggest were HDTVs. The cheapest were HDTVs. And the most expensive were HDTVs. Wait. Where's the SDTVs?!?!

My local wal-mart no-longer sells SDTVs. HDTV is here, HDTV is today. It is no longer the future.

EDIT: HDTV is still the future as well, but it is also the present.

So what I'm assuming here (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that your Walmart didn't have any tube televisions.  Virtually all tube TVs are standard definition but many new ones have digital tuners built in.

From Walmart's website, they do not carry any tube HD tube TVs:
http://www.walmart.com/search/browse-ng.do?ic=12_0&ref=125875.331180+500920.4293837039
(I hope the link works) 

Regarding HD usage, here's what I posted previously "In the past eight years, about a third of US households have purchased a tv capable of displaying high definition television.  "A new CEA study, HDTV: You Have the Set, But Do You Have the Content?, found that 44 percent of HDTV owners receive HD programming. The main reasons consumers stated for not receiving the programming was that it was too expensive or they were not interested."  So they own the sets, but really aren't interested in HD.  I wonder why they bought them. ;)  There are some other useful facts in this article here:

http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/15190/hd-tv-guide/

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