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[Kleegamefan]

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=550248

Even without a hard deadline for the full switch, digital TV sales have been good, Liao says. Color television took 10 years to get into 5% of U.S. homes. Digital TV got into 15% of U.S. homes in less than seven years. Sales of digital TV sets in the U.S. began in August 1998.

 

[Ryck]

Yeah I just saw a 30" Lcd WS Hdtv for 799. at fry's. I was sooooooo tempted but I bought a 30" Wega just last year so I forced myself home empty handed.

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

I'm going to wait until I get out of college to get an HDTV. It will be a graduation present to myself from myself.

 

[Naked Snake]

I always wondered why are HDTVs called "digital"? If it's a CRT using component video cables I don't see what's so digital about it compared to SDTVs... anyone care to enlighten me? If it's an LCD with a digital signal connecter (DVI?) then I can see where the "digital" naming might come from, but some people call any and all HDTVs digital.

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

I suppose SDTV's are considered "analog"

 

[Naked Snake]

I suppose SDTV's are considered "analog"

I am well aware that many people call SDTVs "analog" and HDTVs "digital", and that's exactly where my beef is, I don't see the reasoning behind it. Both can be digital and analog as far as I know... I could be wrong, and if so I'd like to know why

 

[Outcast2004]

It's a great thing that the HDTV's have dropped. My first thing I'm buying with my new salary (got a new job at a newspaper.. YAY me!), is a 52 inch HDTV that will replace my old, shitty 27 inch TV.

 

[karasu]

still waiting for my HL-P5085W to arrive.

 

[cubicle47b]

The HDTV signal is digital.

 

[themadcowtipper]

Bah everyone knows the future of tv is Holograms..
http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept37389/files/228328.html

 

[Pudding Tame]

I always wondered why are HDTVs called "digital"? If it's a CRT using component video cables I don't see what's so digital about it compared to SDTVs... anyone care to enlighten me? If it's an LCD with a digital signal connecter (DVI?) then I can see where the "digital" naming might come from, but some people call any and all HDTVs digital.

I think it has more to do with the the fact that HDTV signals are broadcast digitally.

 

[Chrono]

question...

What's after HDTV? 10 years from now, will we be upgrading to higher than 1080p?

 

[android]

question...

What's after HDTV? 10 years from now, will we be upgrading to higher than 1080p?

I heard somewhere that they where working on something higher but it would require another infrastructure overhaul. We will probably have HDtv for twenty to thirty years.