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Will somebody leave the standards set one way for a while, and stop flipping them around, like some child playing with a light switch?
That might well be the case here as well. Haven't bought a tv in ages, so wouldn't be surprised if most new sets (if not all) are digital ready. However, the vast majority of sets in use are not. Hence the problem.
Many people already have digital reception TVs, by now,
in their living room. But what of the other 3 TVs throughout the rest of the house? And what of all these old people in nursing homes, who don't keep up with these technological developments? Isn't somebody going to be hopping mad, when the government just flips the switch, and trashes countless millions of TV sets? Why can't they do this "transition" thing, a lot longer. Why all these mandates? And if the government can mandate, why don't the government set some standards and end this stupid format war between HD-DVD and Bluray? Or the 2 noncompatible, pay-for-what-ought-to-be-free satelite radio standards? BTW, I only have but 1 working TV, so I am HD/SD digital-ready in this. But I was all set to just quit watching TV, come 2009, had my old TV still worked, making possible skipping out on upgrading. I probably paid double, to make sure I had the new technology, hopefully to last the next 19 years, like my first TV did. And I was glad I could actually get it, in FULL-SCREEN.
Another question: Why does my TV allow me to set, 3 types of cable? And what does the built-in QAM tuner mean? I have no cable-card slot, so does that mean that my TV is only analog-cable ready? Doesn't QAM mean digital cable? I've heard conflicting claims?
Now I hear radio ads hyping HD radio. To which I say, "I am not about to go out and buy something new, everytime they want to change the standards." (Seems like almost every couple of years, they want to introduce new standards, just to get us to junk our old still-working stuff, to go buy new stuff. But I wasn't designed just to be a corporate profit pawn.) FM actually, is pretty good, unless a signal is very weak, it's pretty accurate at maintaining the audio signal, unlike so much of analog. Far better than AM does. Yeah, I like free digital, but that makes sense to me, pretty much only when I am in the market to buy a new radio. But don't most people already have plenty of radios?