You're a Doll, all you old actors, but I love HDTV!

[Touchdown]

Yes, I can see all your wrinkles, crows feet, and vericose veins on your noses, but your beautiful anyhow. Except Arnie...His crows feet on 6th Day look a little out of place.

I have no interest in the US Open, but I sat and watched it anyway, because it was in HDTV. Pure, sharp pictures, almost makes the worlds most boring sport to watch on TV, well watchable. I said ALMOST!

Can't wait till' Wednesday, when PBS shows The Sacred Balance in HD. :bounce:

One problem...there's not enough to watch!

[Deja Q]

1. I'd wait before getting it, I'd boycott them totally - it's sinister...

The MPAA and others want HDTV transmissions to contain copy protection signals and "broadcast flags" to prevent trading of recorded episodes and to prevent episodes from being taped. (Apparently, the 20+ years of VHS tape trading has hurt big business sooooooo much that they want home recording and trading eradicated in the future.)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/2002-08-12-digital-tv_x.htm has just a tiny sample.

They're also trying to force the system to be totally changed to HDTV format by 2006. I'm enjoying what I've got now because I'm not going to pay into the new system. No way in hell am I going to. Fuck 'em all if they're going to get all fascist on my ass. I'll learn to live without my collection of DVDs and VHS tapes, painful as that will be. Nazi Amer... oops, Corporate America will not have that control.

[Kellanved]

2. Whew

I always wanted HDTV (because of an ugly corruption case we don't have HDTV-compatible digital TV, but only PAL-progressive). However you made me almost like our digital-cable standard (the decoders can stream MPEG with their built-in LAN adapter and have no problems with VCRs)

[Touchdown]

3. Well, it's a little late for me, isn't it?

Besides, there are only 2 VCRs that can record HD signals. Older analog models won't record the signals without a converter box that is supposed to come out by 2006.

It's Congress that mandated the 2006 dates, but only if 85% of the nation's population can receive OTA digital signals, so I wouldn't worry too much. Who are "They"? I've been waiting for this since 1991. Square, blurry TV is so 80s!

You may learn to live without tape, but DVD will be replaced by a new disc using blue lasers that will be able to record HD signals. All DTVs are backward compatible anyway, just hook up your VHS and DVD to it. Hollywood will have to go through the court systems to get their way about copy protection, and Sony, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Samsung, etc are fighting them, and they're not powerless in this, and they have plenty of shiny boxes coming down the pike to sell us.

Besides...as with anything digital, it will eventually be hacked. It took, what, 2 years to hack DVD's code?