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Tha ReAlEsT
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Correct me if im wrong, but when the fcc the change from analog to digital, wouldnt hdtv become a lot cheaper, because they wouldnt be anything special but will just be the normal technology or just a TV?
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| The HD sets and equipment will continue to drop in price. The digital transition will not make HD cheaper for the broadcaster. HD broadcast equipment is still very expensive because it is specilized. Live event programing is also more costly to produce in HD or in analog. Production costs for HD are very pricy still. A HD mobile rig is apox 10 mill now. HDNET has 2 of them. The transition to digitl is costly for the brodcastes since they have to run two diffrent transmiters, one analog, and one digital. The transmiters use lots of power. One transmiter can eat up 100,000 of power in a month. Once the transition is done, the analog tranmiters can be shut off and they save lots of money.
On the consumer side the costs are dropping quickly. Amazing sets can be bought for 1,000 to 5,000 that once cost 3,000 to 20,000. Just like other electronics the prices are dropping fast. A basic tuner will cost under 100 before the along cutoff date occurs. People will complain, but progress is beter than no progress. Also the along spectrium is work 100 billion or more. I have herd figures north of 1 trillion dollars for it. It will be great for data uses and for other uses such as public safty. This money will go to kill part of the national debt so that my great grand kids are not paying for todays gov spending. I am 27 by the way. The change to digital will not drop the price much, but supply and demand will cause downward spiral in prices just as it has happened to computers, cell phones and vcrs. | |
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My own home theater
I own a nice 30 inch samsung hdtv set. I have been engoying hdtv since Jan 2003. The set was 1,000. Total home theater cost about 3,000 between the tv, dvd player, 7.1 reciver, sacd player, and directv hd box. It could have been done for about 1,000 less but I would rather invest in quality now for stuff used everyday. Also the set was calibrated. Calabration is a must to get a proper signal from any hd set. I wish all programing was HD. I am glad the fcc made a website that is non confusing. It coste taxpayers little to do so since they would have used a contractor that is allresdy on the payroll in charge of maintaining gov web sites. Too many people are given bad advice about there HD equipment and programing options. I have herd that one in 5 homes in the US has an hd capable set, but only 5% have the proper equipment to view HD content. What good does having an HD capable set with analog cable or a dvd player hooked up to it? None in my mind. I am an early adopter on tech. I have had broadband since 2000. I was spoiled by having broadband in college in 95. It was 600k but in 95 that was very fast. | |
Tha ReAlEsT
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Yea, i just wanted to bring this up, because i saw a lot of people complaining about over priced sets, but when all broadcast is digital, then these hdtv's will just be regular tv's. When Analog broadcast is finish, then Cable co's will most likely go all digital also to say bandwidth.
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