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Originally Posted by Sandy G
HDTV IS a better picture than analog/std NTSC, but is it REALLY worth all the hate & discontent it's gonna cause? Virtually EVERY TV set in the country is gonna be obsolete overnight-I don't care how much they advertise it, that's gonna cause mass confusion on a huge scale-and it's been proven people would give up easily-available food & water before they'd give up TV. As usual, people in government have not thought this one out very well. But we all know the gummint could f!ck up a 2 car funeral....<grin>-Sandy G.
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Got that right. How many analog tv sets are in use in the US? 200, 300 million?
Imagine what that will do to landfills. Imagine the lead leaching into the soil. Bet the geniuses didn't think of that.
Tom