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The HDTV hoax has reached or will reach into every American household at some point. Question is, why did we allow this? Politicians and foreign corporations knew we were suckers ripe for a plucking. We are draining jobs and money faster than we can handle and all the noise in the media steers us away from this fact. MelodyMaster, if you were feeding your kids from dumpster divings, would you still cheer this loss of industry to our adversaries? I can no longer find work in electronic manufacturing, despite the promise from an old fool in Washington back in the Michael Jackson era that "high-tech jobs are coming to replace the old manufacturing ones" Can you name him?
We are so vain and egocentric as a culture that we couldn't resist something that was newer, better, faster, shinier, more satisfying, etc. Far too many of us were willing to shut-up-and-eat-it.
There is plenty of garbage on TV for all too see in glorious HDTV, trouble is, nobody can articulate as to why we are better off with it. All I hear from its proponents is how we MUST have it or our ____ are gonna fall off.
BTW, I dare any manufacturer of set-top DTV converters to market one in kit form.
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