HDTV shortage may force Euro viewers into pubs

While we've had the opportunity to watch sporting events from the Super Bowl to the World Baseball Classic (the what?) in glorious HD here in the US, the upcoming World Cup was set to be the event to get Europeans to tune in to HDTV. A shortage of decoder chips, however, has apparently limited supplies, leaving at least some Europeans to watch the tournament on their old analog sets. Or their cellphones. Or in pubs that have installed HD sets, which is where we know we'd want to be anyhow.

[Via HDBeat]