With the fuss on HDTVs, I wonder when these new breed of idiot boxes be really ready to conquer our living rooms. I know that they're ready being sold in appliance centers but I also know that as far as resolution and color rendition is concerned, they are not yet ready since 1080p resolution sources will only be available perhaps a year or two from now. Like what I've been blabbering within the past months, we should make sure that we buy gadgets that are really future-proof.
Anyways, are you aware that even analog TV can accept HDTV input? Sounds interesting right, but this is no joke folks, you can actually access those HDTV stations on your standard boob tube. What I'm talking about guys is a HDTV-ready sets, which is an analog TV that uses an external digital tuner to be able to watch HDTV programming and basic analog broadcasts as well. This is something like our old cable ready TV sets, if you remember that, wherein you can have
cable channels and common channels at the same time. On the other hand, a real HDTV sets have a digital tuner installed which allows you to received high definition broadcasting. Hope you're not confused with that, okay, to make things simpler, an HDTV set need not an additional tuner unlike the HDTV ready, I hope you got that.
What's astonishing is that U.S. lawmakers are planning to get rid of analog TVs and switch every single idiot box on the fifty
states of America to HD broadcasting. If my clouded memory served me right, I think they are proposing the shutoff of standard TVs effective February 2009. I'm confused with this report, but anyway, does this mean they are going to give all Americans their own HDTV set?
