Rick Brandt wrote:
"Bob Urz" wrote in message ...


Rick Brandt wrote:


Bob Urz wrote:

Its going to happen. its only a matter of time.
The gov thinks there going to make big bucks selling some of the
spectrum and using other parts of it for public safety.


Yeah, but let's not make it a bigger deal that it is. When that happens ANY
TV will work when hooked up to a box that will cost a few bucks. You will
not see thousands of sets sitting on the curb the next trash day.


A few bucks??? last i heard they estimated $200. Much more than most tv's are
worth. There was even talk of subsidies to accelerate the changeover.
Essentially, who wants to make a dead product??


I can buy a digital cable box NOW for 50 bucks. When hundreds of millions of
sets can make use of such a device some nice Asian company will gladly flood the
market with a unit and I will be shocked if the price doesn't quickly settle at
under 20 dollars.

Remember that all the unit has to do is the same thing as the tuner that will be
just one small component in the new TVs being sold. Just how expensive could it
possibly be? And why would it be a dead product? They still sell devices that
allow you to hook up RCA connectors to a TV that is only equipped with a coax
connector. How long has it been since you saw a new TV that didn't have RCA
connectors? Those devices are being purchased by people who have perfectly
working TVs who are now finding that the DVD player manufacturers have stopped
putting coax outputs on their units like the VCRs they're replacing. So for ten
bucks they buy an adapter.





Hi,
Also they're working hard to design a CRT with lesser depth.
Tony