Digital TV: Leaving viewers in limbo
Digital TV
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one totally confused about this often delayed and continually confusing issue.
When I walk into stores, I still see only a very small minority of televisions available with any sort of digital tuner. All that small minority are big screen televisions.
I stumbled into this issue when pondering a new television for my travel trailer. Since the transition was initially (after numerous extensions) supposed to be in 2006, I thought I might buy a television with a digital tuner. Instead I can't even find a television in the 9-12" range available and yet they are claiming we are making this jump in 2009.
How is this ever going to sort itself out?
Nick
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one totally confused about this often delayed and continually confusing issue.
When I walk into stores, I still see only a very small minority of televisions available with any sort of digital tuner. All that small minority are big screen televisions.
I stumbled into this issue when pondering a new television for my travel trailer. Since the transition was initially (after numerous extensions) supposed to be in 2006, I thought I might buy a television with a digital tuner. Instead I can't even find a television in the 9-12" range available and yet they are claiming we are making this jump in 2009.
How is this ever going to sort itself out?
Nick
Comments
But you know what... it still seems like a beta. It's the highest fidelity AV source available but everything is flakey. Stations routinely go black for a few seconds, having simply failed to switch a setting at the proper time. Audio sync issues creep in at the national and local levels.
I predict that the DTV switchover will be delayed at least twice. There's no way we'll be ready in 3 years.
With that said, HDTV on my DLP projector still blows my mind... every single time going on 3 years now. Who cares if its beta, it looks too damned good.