http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/ Engadget HD Comments for 22% of analog owners have no plans for digital switchover http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 14th 2007 11:48PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 12:32AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 12:38AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/
Hey, if it aint broke, why fix it? and unless you want to personally buy me a new digital TV, I will be keeping the ones I have, thankyouverymuch.

I hate our disposable society.]]>Nov 15th 2007 12:44AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 12:52AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/
1) Color reproduction. It's no secret most TV shows, graphics artists, etc use CRT's for proofing as they have the best color reproduction. LCD and Plasma are getting close, but not there yet.

2) Resolutions. Unlike Plasma/LCD CRT's support lots of resolutions natively.

3) Lifecycle. CRT's don't easily burn in or suffer image retention issues like plasmas. They don't dim like LCD's. They don't have dead pixels.

The only downside of CRT's is that they are huge and heavy.

Now I'm not a CRT fanboi - I love my LCD's and Plasma TV on the wall. But CRT's pictures can look every bit as good and in many cases better than a Plasma/LCD.]]>Nov 15th 2007 10:06AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 1:00AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/
I agree with you. For what it's worth, I have an HDTV but it has an analog tuner. I feel like anyone who has a plan in place isn't thinking long-term. We have CES `08 and `09 to introduce new receivers and we've got every content provider planning their deals to grab all of the cable customers who will "not be ready." Why is anyone jumping to vote for what they'll be doing in a year when tech shifts by the month? To Kettch's point, there will be PSAs all over the place, and they'll all end with something along the lines of, "So sign up for (provider's name) before February so you don't have to miss a single program."]]>Nov 15th 2007 1:02AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 7:42AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 8:04AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 9:19AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/
FYI, in your first sentence, it's "affect," not "effect." As a verb, "effect" means to bring about change.]]>Nov 15th 2007 8:03AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 11:44AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 8:48AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 9:01AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/
They hold on to their "Unbroken" analog tvs while they watch fuzzy programming on two of the 7 local channels they can actually see. This is of course after they drive home from work in their "Unbroken" '72 camaro that still runs so why replace it. Meanwhile their non-energy star rated TV and their 70s gas guzzler burning 5 gallons a mile is either directly or indirectly contributing to the death of our society to the great demon spawn of western culture, Global Warming. I bet they have their Gore/Leiberman 2000 stickers on their car. Maybe a Carter Mondale still too. A few Environmentalist stickers telling people to switch to uber expensive Compact Fluorescent light bulbs when incadescents work just fine. (Gee Where did that come from. hee hee)

Get with the program people. Thats not March of the Polar Bears in Snowstorms youre watching. Thats lack of signal, and more like lack of clue. ]]>Nov 15th 2007 9:29AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/
The people with a 20" CRT are probably consuming less power than those with 42" plasmas.]]>Nov 15th 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/
Thanks]]>Nov 15th 2007 9:30AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/
Which TV's do I watch the most? The 20" ones. Standard Def programming looks better on it and there is no point in turning all that stuff on to watch the news or Judge Judy or I love Lucy. I will grant you the HDTV is nice but we are getting a bit carried away with it. CRT TV's have a lot of life left, as there are years and years of standard definition shows out there I still love.

And if my 20” TV’s broke tomorrow I would replace them with 20” CRTs. Although by the time they break, admittedly such TV’s will no longer be available.

Plus with all this HDTV, my house becomes the local neighborhood hangout on Sunday.
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Touch a plasma and get a suntan from the IR and UV that it puts out.

And we won't discuss the mercury in the LCD's lamps. Unless it's one of the very new LED backlit ones.]]>Nov 15th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 12:46PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/14/22-of-analog-owners-have-no-plans-for-digital-switchover/Nov 15th 2007 2:42PM