Im not what you would generally call a conspiracy theorist. However looking back 10 years or so, I cant help but notice that the TV manufacturers (and the government) forced HDTV down out throats. I used to sell TVs (a long time ago), while working my way through college. Made a ton of money doing it too, I used to work at one of those super centers that sold electronics. I would work just on the weekends and a few nights per week and the full timers hated it because I would make more than they were and do it in under 20 hours a week. So lets jump in our way back machine to about 2005-2006. The Federal Government says hey lets switch to HD and then proceed to roll out their half ass program and force everyone to scramble and either buy a new TV or get some stupid HDTV adaptor. The problem as I see it at least, was that no-one really needed a new TV. You may have wanted a new TV but for the most part everyone had a couple TVs in the house and they were all working just fine. I for one had a Sony 61 that was 4-5 years old but working great, plus I also had a couple of really nice smaller tube televisions that even though they were several years old were plainly just bulletproof. So 2006 rolls around, TV sales are pretty crappy so the government goes out and says hey lets screw with people just for the fun of it. They roll out a technology that really was not ready for prime time, one that few people really wanted and generally one that most people really did not need the expense required to be complaint. And not only all that but through the switch from analog to digital how many TV stations were actually ready to go live and start broadcasting in digital much less high definition. Most of us with some experience in the industry can clearly remember there were a ton of broadcasters who just were not ready for the transition and pretty much made a mockery of it. Comcast cable which I subscribe to took several years to get their stuff in order and and remember the days of not needing to rent a cable box for every tv? Well that also went away . So like everyone else, I run out spent ridiculous money on two new tvs and for what? One of those new flat screens dies within 4 years. First they start out by losing a pixel or two then you get some lines and finally the backlighting gives out. Pretty much everyone who has a non LED flat screen is heading towards the recycling center and much sooner than you would be if you had kept that old bulletproof tank tube TV you used to have (once your fluorescent tubes that provide the backlight gives out). My biggest complaint? So part of the reason that we went to digital HDTV was for the better widescreen experience, right? So why is it that on my high end LED flat screen I still get those damn black bars at the top and bottom of the screen? (letterboxing) You see they said hey, were going to go to this great new format (16.9) its going to be wonderful and you will experience TV just like in a movie theatre. Then what happened? whoola! they pulled the rug out and once again moved the goal post a few yards down. This is nothing more than some marketing BS to get you to go out and replace or upgrade. Every time that the market gets saturated they move that goal post so that you feel the need to shell out some cash on something you really dont need. https://youtube/watch?v=2XvDb37qIdg
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:39:03 +0000
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