"James Sweet" wrote in message
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Well for two reasons one you might need to move it about a lot,
maybe a student or some other type who travels a lot.
Also you may not have a very large house, I would like a portable
in the kitchen and anything bigger than a portable would take
up too much room, ditto for the bedroom.
There must be a market for portable TV's (which you appear
to deny) because they make up about 30-50 percent of the TV
market .
Also not everyone wants to spend £280 on a TV when they can
get one for £69, but I guess you call paying 4 times what you used
to pay is 'progress', just like digital radio, where you can pay
10 times the price for a product which will not even work unless
you pay a futher £400 for an ariel the size of Jodrell Bank.

--
geoff


There's a plentiful supply of used 4:3 sets, and that will only get larger
as 16:9 gains popularity, so if anything you should be happy, supply will
be
high, demand will be low, prices will be cheap. The 4:3 format will likely
remain popular for quite some time for portable sets, but 4:3 is virtually
dead for large projection sets even today, with no signs of that slowing
down. I rather like the trend, if I had my choice I'd go WS but I got my
50"
standard set for free, I'm sure after a few years I'll come across an even
nicer one as someone upgrades.

So you prefer WS TV but have not experienced it yet? bit odd?
Films can be 'doctored' to look OK in WS ( stick a lampost/hatstand in the
wasted space) but you cannot do that to real life broadcasts (sport, news
etc).
In real life people have tops on their heads.( no wonder hats went out of
fashion).