[Vision2020] Digital television

[thansen@moscow.com]

Good question, Mr. Westberg.  And with environmental restrictions the way they 
are (and I do support them), disposing of a television set requires alot more 
than a visit to the local landfill.  Might as well alert Moscow Recycling.  As 
soon as HDTV prices become consumer-competitive, alot of "old" television sets 
might be showing up on their doostep.

Tom Hansen

> 
> 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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