Just sit back and watch the screams when HD is phased into the USA in a
couple of years...and hundreds of millions of televisions go obselete at once.

No they dont, you just get a set top box.


Wanna bet?

If you were the television manufacturers, would you let millions of
consumers keep their current sets if you have a chance to sell new
product?

And since houses have multiple television sets, each will require a
convertor box...which at this time has yet to have a firm price set for
it.

TMT
Rod Speed wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:

...and let's not forget those plasma tvs of ' a certain well known
brand who invented the walkman' with the driver chips on the cables
to the screen - horizontal black line of death and you toss a 2000?
tv! they should hang the designers of that one!

Just sit back and watch the screams when HD is phased into the USA in a
couple of years...and hundreds of millions of televisions go obselete at once.

No they dont, you just get a set top box.

FYI....plasma televisions have a dismal repair record.....
throwaway electronics at several thousand dollars a toss.


b wrote:
Everett M. Greene ha escrito:

"Rod Speed" writes:
terry wrote
Although recent discussion/discovery that IPods will
exhaust their batteries in approximately one to two
years do clearly raise the question? "Designed to fail?".

Doesnt explain stuff like cordless phones that use standard
batterys.

What explains the electric toothbrushes that don't have
replaceable batteries? You have to toss a $60-$120
device just because a $5 battery has failed.

...and let's not forget those plasma tvs of ' a certain well known
brand who invented the walkman' with the driver chips on the cables
to the screen - horizontal black line of death and you toss a 2000?
tv! they should hang the designers of that one! Crimes against the
environment.
-B.