@Noobie
Thanks for the pdf file.
I found this link here: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%60%60The+Matrix%27%27+DVD+Ships+1.5+Million,+the+Most+Successful+Title+in...-a055918526
| Viper1 said: In America, the government offered a $40.00 voucher on the purchase of the set top digital boxes. Try entering your stores electronics departments and you may find digital SD TV's for sale. Advertising and most online retail won't carry them because they get a higher margin and revenue on HDTV's. The bigger name companies still make the SD TV's, they just brand them with their subsidiaries and or/partners and keep their own names on their HDTV's. |
The SDTV's are increasingly a fraction of the TV's in the store. They are shuffled off to the less prime shelf space and treated like dirt, especially the CRT's. The LCD non-HDTV's are treated somewhat better.
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| daxiang12 said: @Noobie Thanks for the pdf file. I found this link here: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%60%60The+Matrix%27%27+DVD+Ships+1.5+Million,+the+Most+Successful+Title+in...-a055918526 |
i don't have any issue accepting the DVD might have sold upto 60 million units.. but DVD players were definitely not selling as highly as they portrayed.. i m sure that for DVD player vs VHS comparison they must have used Japan or some specific region... instead of the worldwide comparison.
I see a lot of discrepency if you see the number... they r saying it was outselling VCR 13 to 1 since launch.. So in those 2 yrs only 180k VCR sold..?? doesn't look right to me at all.
Anyway i don't see the picture as bleak as they article is showing
| Viper1 said: Max, good point but so many people are still confused on analog TV vs digital TV. Digital TV is what we are about to switch to however, digital TV does not equate to HDTV. 480 resolution TV signals will still be transmitted for possibly decades while the digital SD TV's will also be sold for quite a long time from now. |
The bolded part is not true. The goverment is reclaiming the SD airwaves. The setup box downscales the HD signal to 480i.
Thanks for the input, Jeff.
dbot said:
The bolded part is not true. The goverment is reclaiming the SD airwaves. The setup box downscales the HD signal to 480i. |
Someone lied to you.
Once again DTV does not equal HDTV.
Besides that, only the full powered TV statsions in the US are switching to digital in Feb. That's just about 1,800 stations but there still over 7,000 low powered stations that are not under the federal mandate and have no time frame to swich to digital broadcasting.
What you might be talking about is the reallocation of the lower end of the 700 Mhz band for other communications use. That affects channels 52-69 which has been in transition anyway since the 1990's.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
dbot said:
The bolded part is not true. The goverment is reclaiming the SD airwaves. The setup box downscales the HD signal to 480i. |
I'm not from the US, but surely they will just be "reclaiming" the analogue OTA frequencies, and SD broadcasts will still continue on digital frequencies. If it's anything like anywhere else in the world then the set-top box will just decode the digital OTA SD broadcasts, there should be no need to decode and downscale HD broadcasts to SD as these should be simulcast in SD too. AFAIK most people in US use cable anyway, so should be unaffected by this.
Viper1 said:
Someone lied to you. Once again DTV does not equal HDTV. Besides that, only the full powered TV statsions in the US are switching to digital in Feb. That's just about 1,800 stations but there still over 7,000 low powered stations that are not under the federal mandate and have no time frame to swich to digital broadcasting.
What you might be talking about is the reallocation of the lower end of the 700 Mhz band for other communications use. That affects channels 52-69 which has been in transition anyway since the 1990's. |
I fully understand the differences between DTV and HDTV.
If you are relying on the low powered translators as an argument against HDTV penetration than you are grasping at straws.
Thanks for the input, Jeff.
Apparently you haven't read my posts very well if that's your gist.
I brought up the low powered stations because you claimed the government is reclaiming all the SD bandwidth.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
January 4th
DVD $132.83 million down 56.09% Total 84%
Blu-ray $24.33 million down 39.28% Total 16%
New record for BD market share.
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/hom823310ZDC/index.php#/0
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