Resolution aside, I think there is another problem with HDTV advertising today. I don't think that retailers should be able to call something a television if it doesn't have a tuner in it. Most of the HD sets out there are only HD monitors. Very few of them are acutally televisions. This is just a way retailers get people to buy expensive sets. If you were looking at an HD monitor or an HDTV and the monitor was more expensive, why would you buy it? With the way these sets are advertised today, who knows what they are? The ad in the example doesn't say if it has a tuner or not. It really is false advertising to call an HD monitor an HDTV. You don't see computer monitor makers advertising their monitors as TV's without tuners do you? So why should television makers be able to?
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Matt Johnson @ Nov 6th 2005 9:48PM
Resolution aside, I think there is another problem with HDTV advertising today. I don't think that retailers should be able to call something a television if it doesn't have a tuner in it. Most of the HD sets out there are only HD monitors. Very few of them are acutally televisions. This is just a way retailers get people to buy expensive sets. If you were looking at an HD monitor or an HDTV and the monitor was more expensive, why would you buy it? With the way these sets are advertised today, who knows what they are? The ad in the example doesn't say if it has a tuner or not. It really is false advertising to call an HD monitor an HDTV. You don't see computer monitor makers advertising their monitors as TV's without tuners do you? So why should television makers be able to?