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schoolboy: Vintage electronics is indeed an odd hobby as far as attempting to categorize it. It is nearly an oxymoron. (Yes, in some cases, it is an "obsession" as you called it. But not all of us are that extreme. Well...OK, maybe the vast majority!) In some ways, it is more closely linked with the antique world than it is with technology, and certainly has nothing to do with "progress", except that many of us question whether any has been truly made in these areas.
Having said that, I have to say that I like the move to HD, regardless of how it went down. I just want to make room for both, so those cool old 1950's sets can still function, as well as the cool new plasmas and LCDs, even though they're expensive and they degrade faster. (You can have those rear projection things though. Horrible off-axis viewing and the lighting is uneven if you have to get close.) Yes, I guess that problem is solved with a converter box. But who wants to either shell out the extra $ or accept government money just to do something as sick and wrong as placing a 21st century BPB device on a 1957 television? Talk about a clashing view!
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