dplantz
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Roslindale, MA
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| reply to Tha ReAlEsT
Re: Price
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. |
