What do you really think the answer is? Half of people being too ignorant/misinformed to figure it out or so savvy that they don't even need to pay for cable/sat service?
Come on, everyone knows someone like this. You're sitting on your couch watching an SD channel on your brand new HDTV and a particularly cheaply produced, really terrible looking commercial comes on for your local "cash loan store" or something and your Grandpa or technically inept mother-in-law comes in, sees it, and says something like "wow, the picture on your new TV is really good".
On a side note (somewhat related), my in-laws have a giant old-school RPTV with the absolute worst picture I've ever seen. It needs service bad. The convergence is WAY off, the picture is faded and really dark, and the picture literally shakes like it's having a seizure and noone notices it but me and my brother-in-law. My mother-in-law still thinks it's a "very nice TV", she's extremely nostalgic. It was the family's pride and joy when they bought it 12 years ago. It gives me a headache to even watch it.
Sorry, just to add to my last post. I didn't mean to sound like you'd watch an SD channel on your brand new HDTV on purpose, but sometimes we have no choice. I know I don't get all my channels in HD.
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greatslack @ Feb 26th 2008 7:55AM
So are nearly half of the American HDTV owners stupid, or are they just using their HDTVs for games, HD movies, pirated content, etc.?
Miggity @ Feb 26th 2008 11:09AM
What do you really think the answer is? Half of people being too ignorant/misinformed to figure it out or so savvy that they don't even need to pay for cable/sat service?
yeah. me too.
Loban @ Feb 26th 2008 5:23PM
Come on, everyone knows someone like this. You're sitting on your couch watching an SD channel on your brand new HDTV and a particularly cheaply produced, really terrible looking commercial comes on for your local "cash loan store" or something and your Grandpa or technically inept mother-in-law comes in, sees it, and says something like "wow, the picture on your new TV is really good".
On a side note (somewhat related), my in-laws have a giant old-school RPTV with the absolute worst picture I've ever seen. It needs service bad. The convergence is WAY off, the picture is faded and really dark, and the picture literally shakes like it's having a seizure and noone notices it but me and my brother-in-law. My mother-in-law still thinks it's a "very nice TV", she's extremely nostalgic. It was the family's pride and joy when they bought it 12 years ago. It gives me a headache to even watch it.
Loban @ Feb 26th 2008 5:24PM
Sorry, just to add to my last post. I didn't mean to sound like you'd watch an SD channel on your brand new HDTV on purpose, but sometimes we have no choice. I know I don't get all my channels in HD.