| Kyros said: "they just buy it because flatscreens look cool" who cares why they buy them. They buy millions of them. 2 years ago nobody had them now 25-36% (I don't see why your link should be more believable) have a HD set. Besides these are the households with more money. So I hope we can agree that we have a lightning fast transition to HD capable TVs (nobody buys them?). It is true though (and nobody did deny it) that many of these HDTV owners have no HD inputs but this will change once HD players get into DVD player pricerange and people get accustomed to the new technology. A couple years ago LCDs were luxus items. |
The HD Ready LCD/Plasma TVs do look cool and I think a major selling point is just that, get a TV in your house that isn't as BIG as your house as the old SDTVs tend to be really thick. What you get is a higher resolution TV where SD and HD programming looks like crap compared to an SDTV with decent 16:9 material on it. Right now HDTV is an immature technology.
The best LCD and Plasma panels today don't hold a candle to good old CRT when it comes to picture quality. They look good enuff for most people though (remember, the majority of HDTV owners still watch fuzzy SD programming stretched to fit their TVs) just don't enable that 100/120Hz or any of the other "quality enhancing" settings or the picture rapidly falls apart.
dlundh
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