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In Reply to: HDTV:anyone buying posted by pete on May 28, 1999 at 12:25:34:
There's no software, you may not be able to receive broadcasts properly, and there's virtually nothing to watch!
I totally agree! Everyone seems to be talking about HDTV. Why? Is it because you want to see Jay Leno's stubble in The Tonight Show, or is it because you want to watch those two football games and three severely edited movies a year? To me, HDTV makes no sense. 99% of everything on TV is crap anyway. And watching movies on TV is so painful. They cut out a quarter of the movie and advertise every ten minutes. TV is a joke. Does any A/V enthusiast ever actually watch television? I don't know any that do.And do manufactures think that Joe and Jane Q. Public (the average American watches 48 hours of television a week...more thatn they work! even care how good the picture or sound is? They're not gonna spend $10,000 on a TV when the average TV sold is something like a $250 25" GE? HDTV is misdirected.
I won't be buying another monitor until they perfect a nice large screen 16:9 plasma TV (like the Pioneer) and sell it for around $5000 so it doesn't affect the imaging of my HT system. Good luck!
I would get it for sports. It makes a difference. I can just imagine the NHL on HDTV. I was under the impression that full implementaion would be within the next couple of years. I like those plasma screens too, I want to hang one on the wall behind my two channel system for some eye candy while listening. But, 15,000 for the phillips, don't think so, might pay half that. Something strange about this monitor though, in the store where they have it(j&R for all you NYers)they only will play this one DVD. It's a colorized version of some old movie, like Ben Hurr, can't remember exactly. They will not show anything else, even when you ask nicely. Makes me suspicious.
It is cool to be the first one on your block to own a new toy BUT you also get to be the Beta test subject and you pay heavily for the chance to do so. HDTV is at the same point color was in the '60s. Few stations were broadcasting in color and even fewer people had color tv. It took a long time for color tv to become common place. HDTV is in the same boat as color tv was. While the change may come faster, right now only a few cities are broadcasting HDTV signals, you need an antenna, (no cable yet) and few people have the TV set to receive the signal. I want the upgraded picture that HDTV can offer, but I will wait until it becomes common place.
And back in the 60's, going from b&w to color was a dramatic change. One that the average person could easily see the benefit. Not so with HDTV. I don't think the public as whole cares about high definition. In order for HDTV to succeed, the general public must accept it not just the HT enthiusiast. The general isn't going to spend even twice the price of regular TV, much less twenty times the amount. JimB
I agree on the comment that the difference is hard to see at this point. I've seen the Sony direct view, and the Pioneer Elite, Panasonic, and a few Mitsu RPTVs. All were running the Mitsu demo of desert and evergalade scenes off a hard disc. Verdict? The Sony sucks, too fuzzy to take seriously, same with the Panasonic. The Mistsus are a bit better, but the only one that looks good to me is the Pioneer. In fact, after tweaking convergence and color temp in a dark demo room it looked phenomenal -easily a difference that even lay observers wandering into the room could see (and commment on).While this thread hits the nail on the head that until there is software there wont be a big market, I think everyones missing the point - the hardware manufacturers have a huge vested interest in replacing all those outmoded NTSC sets with new digital sets and they will roll over their products lines to them sooner rather than later. There's just too much potential profit in it for it to go any other way. And I'm still amazed by the popularity of DVD in light of its generally unimpressive performance vis-a-vis high def. So I suspect once a high def consumer choice medium arrives (whether DSS, DVD, or tape) I think you will see the market take off.
Oh well, we'll see,
Sign me patiently waiting...
Joe
Agreed. A lot of people have crappy TVs and appear quite happy, even though I can't stand it. If they invite me over, I tend to turn down the offer.
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