| Onyxmeth said: This was a law that was passed allowing everything to go digital. I would presume this advertising and free converter boxes were a mandatory side effect to get the law passed. Will it affect HDTV market share? I don't think so. There are still plenty of uninfomed people that think they're going to need either cable or an HDTV come January 2009. If anything this is helping it push HDTV sales along. |
This.
Lower level HDTV's are already pretty affordable. You can find 32" at Wal-Mart for around $500 and smaller sizes in the $300-450 range. A lot of manufacturers are just axing SDTV production altogether since there really isn't much money in it anymore.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
