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MrPorterhouse wrote:
 Yeah, I read this news a short while ago. I think its a good sign. Aren't some retailers actually posting signs about this cutoff? That's a strategy that retailers could take to sell HDTV's, but anyway its a good sign. |
I'm sure the retailers are already yelling this at the top of their lungs! We're getting frequent PSAs in the Houston area about the pending STV cutoff.
I'm not sure this that reality has sunken in with the general public yet. The build up to greater than half of American homes having an HDTV was likely most attributable (in the beginning) to the natural turnover of consumer electronics with the only replacement TVs being HDTVs. The format switch will continue to gain gravity as the last hold-outs experience the remarkable quality difference in a step up to high def, and more old TV sets die their natural deaths. HDTV converter boxes will fill the gap in the interim, but in the near future, STV sets will go the way of the rotary channel changer knob.