HDTV or even SDTV (standard definition..ie less dots to make up a image on the screen).
I don’t have either. Why do I continue to watch a perfectly nice old 13″ analog set? I used to have cable btw…and frankly I watched a lot of Comedy Central and the Weather Channel with the occasional Dennis Miller HBO show or movie thrown in.
And I concluded after a year that it wasn’t worth the extra money…which quickly adds up…to have that tiny bit of additional content to vegetate in front of.
So, to me the want (notice I didn’t say need) of HD or even SD television is related to the content you plan to view.
It’s all about content which is subpar at this time.
–Movies would be cool although I can count on a few hands the movies that I’d really have to have HD to enjoy any more than on a regular set.
–Sports, especially football and NASCAR and Indy racing would be good examples for HD.
–Animal, nature, science and world travel type programming would be cool in HD
-But In reality, I mostly watch parts of:
Late Night Talk Shows (Letterman, Leno, OBrien, Ferguson, Feresten
Local news
Nightline
Charlie Rose
Saturday Night Live
PBS stuff…This Old House, etc
So… for an additional $700 plus, I can see every zit and blimish on David Letterman or Infomercial bonehead Kevin Trudeau? Umm no.
But, but what about the fact that our stupid greedy government has decided to screw us yet again and sell lots of the broadcast spectrum which forces television stations to stop sending my perfectly fine old analog signal in February 2009?
What will a person like me do? There will be a converter box that will take the digital version of the same signal and convert it back to the analog and most likely I will watch that 13″ analog TV til it caputs. After that, perhaps the various technolgies of LCD, plasma, OLED and DLP projection will have had the survival of the fittest and true dark black and screen life and other issues will be closer to sorting themselves out.
Then there’s regular DVD and VCR for SDTV and can still be watched on HD..btw.
And then the current two flavors of HD DVD…ie BluRay and HD-DVD. As of this posting it looks like BluRay has a lead on movie studios and content providers that (once again plan more content) for BluRay
Leo Laporte noted that cable channels now have some channels in HD, but….may not look as impressive as expected due to video compression. Leo’s podcasts, especially “The Tech Guy” is a good resource for thoughts on HD and more.
http://twit.tv
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