Too_Many_Tools wrote

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?

Yep, they are buyable now.

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?

They get no say what so ever on that.

And since houses have multiple television sets,
each will require a convertor box...

Duh. Much cheaper than a new TV.

which at this time has yet to have a firm price set for it.

Wrong, there are plenty of them available right now.


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.