We were all
digital transition, all the time around here for a while last Summer and have been talking about it in one way or another since the birth of the site. But in the last year we haven't said much and we think that's a good thing. The electronic shopping site Retrevo has been thinking about it though, and has put a survey out to its users and compiled the results of over 200 respondents. Now you know how much we love consumer
surveys about electronics, but in this case the numbers look to be in line with our expectations. Overall people think the transition was a good thing, but that number is exactly 1 percent lower than those who say they were unaffected -- figures. 19 percent of respondents bought a new TV and 13 percent just got cable or satellite instead. Seems likely enough. But our favorite is the 9 percent who bought a converter box but then never bothered to even hook it up; real nice use of tax payer funds. Personally we go under the unaffected column since honestly we started watching over-the-air HD years ago and have never looked back.
posted June 18th 2010 7:54PM
Right there as well... long time HD over the air viewer...
@calvin8714 Digital is only nice if you don't have retards like comcast compressing the signal where even a slightly fast motion in standard def causes pixelation
where are u fios I want more pennyslvania coverage
I actually like the idea of this HD and digital transition. It was time we transition from analog. I would hope that there is better reception and that people could educate themselves about it a little bit more.
Wow a sample of 200...
@nbarsley agreed not exactly a large sample size for a "scientific" study...
Why even bother reporting on a 200 person non-random survey?
Anyway...
I had digital cable back in 99ish when it first launched in my city. Haven't watched anything non-digital in five years or so thanks to Dish.