[Vision2020] Digital television

[Carl Westberg]

Okay, here's a new topic.  Yesterday's Spokesman had an article about all 
television stations switching to digital broadcast by January 2007.  This 
move will force television set owners to either buy a HDTV by that date, or, 
if they have an analog set with AV outputs, buy a convertor to switch the 
signal from digital back to analog.  Granted, the prices will go down over 
the next few years, but right now the average price of a HDTV is, what, 
about 600 dollars?  For a lower end set?  And the convertors are a few 
hundred dollars, also.  Does anyone else find this a little unsettling?  I 
just bought a brand new 27 inch set a couple of years ago.  Is this going to 
create a vast TV burial ground?                                              
                                                                             
                 Carl Westberg Jr.




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