Consumers are buying digital TVs, but not fast enough to meet government mandates. The good news? Prices are dropping.
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1. They are far to expensive. When they have a 60" Plasma for less than $1000 I will consider it. But not until then.
2. This is the most important reason I won't spend the money on one. Digital Rights Management. While the TV is just used to view digital signals it is the starting point for Hollywood to control everything we do with the hardware we buy and the programming we pay for. Once you have and HDTV you will have to buy a new HD Tivo, Sat. Receiver, VCR, DVD Player, etc. etc. and all of these will have the abilitiy to allow those in Hollywood to decide what we can and can't do and record. This is unacceptable. If Hollywood wants this kind of control then they should give us the hardware free of charge instead of expecting us to fork out thousands of dollars for something that is getting mightly close to being useless.
3. I have seen and watched HDTV's and while no scanlines is kind of nice I just don't see the point. I think things would have been better if they hand not pushed for new TV technology and stuck with what we had except improved the TV signals so that they were same quality as DVD. This way we could have all gotten better picture quality without having to spend a small fortune on new equipement. But, then doing this Hollywood wouldn't have gotten what they wanted most and that was control over how we watch things and what we can record. That is all HDTV was for was to give Hollywood they control they were rabid for. Now we have to pay the price and it is higher then most people realize.
Robert