| HappySqurriel said: What percentage of people in the USA get their TV through antenna? Of those how many of these people will spend $500+ on a HDTV when they can get two coupons for Digital to Analogue converters from the government (worth $40 each) for free? Being that a high percentage of Wii owners play their Wii on a HDTV, what makes you think that these people who haven't seen value in HDTV yet will abandon the Wii in favour of a HD console? |
"The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has estimated that there are 69 million analog television sets that will be potentially impacted by the digital transition, consisting of 19.6 million households (17 percent of all households) relying exclusively on over-the-air analog television sets, and an additional 14.7 million cable and satellite households receiving some over-the-air programming on analog sets. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has estimated that 36.5 million analog televisions (comprising 13.5 million households) will require converter boxes; according to CEA, an additional 30 million analog sets are used for non-broadcast purposes such as playing video games or watching DVDs, and will therefore likely not require converter boxes."
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