http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 29th 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/
May get a projector for watching movies in the next year or so though.]]>Dec 29th 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 29th 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/
From personal experience, CRT TVs are the only good consumer products RCA/Thomson makes to this day.]]>Dec 29th 2007 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 29th 2007 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 29th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/
Are these figures based on sales, as I expect people with DTV have 3/4 devices. I have 3 Digital boxes/TVs alone, but I am not 3 people.
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Ever consider that you guys just live in an area that's a little ass-backw... er, a little slow on the uptake? Or that you don't have very tech-savvy friends?

Literally every single person I know has switched. I'm talking *at least* 50 out of 50 friends. I live in an area with relatively high average incomes (New York City) although none of my friends are what you'd call "rich" (and neither am I).

So if I was going to be like you guys and believe my own personal experience over a large study of the entire country, I'd have to say their numbers are obviously too *low*, right?
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Also, requesting friend adds on myspace doesn't count.]]>Dec 30th 2007 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 29th 2007 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/]]>Dec 29th 2007 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/
However, I did buy my 27" back in 2000 to replace my perfectly functional 20" Mitsubishi I bought in '86 (which is now in my bedroom). So I am not immune to wanting nicer things. I'm just a soon to be completely debt free tightwad.]]>Dec 29th 2007 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/
I'm sure everyone will be all set by Jan-Feb 2009.]]>Dec 29th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 29th 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 29th 2007 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Step 2. Ask it how old it is (hopefully it's not shy)
Step 3. If it's Less than 5, and you didn't get it at the Supermarket you should be good ;)
Step 3b. (please correct me if i'm wrong) if it's an LCD or Plasma you're good.

Still rocking that 87 System 3, no amount of badgering will make it uncool]]>Dec 29th 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Cause I can't remember seeing TV's with that until last year. I still see TV's that only have an analog tuner in the adverts.

Everyone was supposed to get a digital conversion box when our little country switched to digital(DVB-T) only. I bet there will be a lot more coal burning this year to satisfy all those power hogging boxes (mine is hot in standby mode!).]]>Dec 29th 2007 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/
In fact, my NEWEST TV is still 6 years old and was purchased on clearance at Best Buy.]]>Dec 29th 2007 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 30th 2007 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Cable ready does not mean it's digital. I was shopping for a tv for my grandfather 6 months ago, and they still had analong tvs there(with a tag stating it will not work after 2009).
I notice that tvs that are digital ready have the letters "SDTV" or "HDTV".]]>Dec 30th 2007 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Hi-Def channels look amazing (Discovery networks FTW)!

Once the Blu Ray or HD-DVD format war is won, I will buy a high
definition player to further find something worthwhile to watch.
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nice]]>Jan 2nd 2008 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/
The digital conversion affects such a limited number of US customers, on the order of 10%, that most people buying digital televisions are doing so for reasons other than the cut off or out of ignorance or on the advice of predatory sales personal at big box stores. The digital conversion only affects people who watch over-the-air broadcasts. The 2009 date does not affect cable, though the FCC is seperately working with cable companies and may, in the future, mandate digital cable. Digital television does not equal high definition television.

The fact of the matter is that all televisions that can accept a converter box, generally meaning any television that can at least accept a coax cable input, will display over-the-air digital broadcasts (ATSC signals).

Tell me, when is the last time you used an antena to watch television? I'm sure some of you, like me, own tvs with ATSC tuners and tried it out. Some of you, like me, also realized that the new digital offerings are significantly better than the analog offerings in both content and quality. At the same time, the offerings have the same limitations existing OTA television does. It's not cable and therefore doesn't affect a vast majority of US consumers in the least.]]>Jan 3rd 2008 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/Dec 29th 2007 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/half-of-us-households-own-a-digital-television/NTSC converters for $100.]]>Jan 14th 2008 8:11PM