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In Reply to: Here is the PR.........wait for the smaller ones upcoming posted by Sherlock on September 1, 2005 at 07:41:14:
Apologies to the poster, and I mean you no harm, but do yourself a favour. Never read this kind of bullsh*t. The guys who write it have probably never seen the unit except for a controlled demo. I once worked for a software company. The head of marketing got up in front of the technical sales staff and expounded about features that were available in a newly released version. The VP of Sales got up, totally fed up, and said he had his best technical guy take him through the whole product and half of what the marketing guy was talking about was not in there. I am a techie and I knew the Sales VP was right. But the marketing guy refused to back down. "It is in there and you need to go out there and sell it.", was his message. The first rule of sanity for any tech firm is "Never believe your own marketing." avsforum.com has a lot of useful info about LCDs and Plasmas. That is where you will find more truth. I almost bought a Dell LCD until I read the thread there and realized that the display of ordinary cable tv is lousy. So what if HDTV looks good? I need the whole package; not just the extra-cost HDTV signal that my cable guy is trying to MARKET to me at EXTRA COST.
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I have seen the TV. Saw the prototype a year ago too. It blows away everything else except for the new SONY LCoS which it equals. The SONY costs 30% more. You'll see for yourself in a few months when the TVs are in Best Buy.
...ordinary cable tv reception in your quoted blurb. Why would I buy something that only looks good with extra cost HDTV signals? There is a lot of content coming down the pipe that is still not HDTV. Convince me that I should wait for all those small cable tv providers to start putting out HDTV. A lot of the stuff I like is off of the main stream. Most of what I find on the major channels is so heavily made up it is like a cheap hooker on a Saturday night.
.. It seems to me that this whole wide-screen putch is being driven by the movie industry who would like to see us all watching movies in the same format as we see when we pay outrageous prices to watch a first run movie with over-compensated stars, directors, camerman, make-up artists, drivers, and just about every other kind of flunky you can imagine, not to mention popcorn that costs more than Texas light sweet crude. I am watching the US Open tennis tournament as I type, on an ordinary tv and frankly I have a lot of trouble seeing what could be added by seeing this in HDTV. And, I might add, I am someone who has spent many thousands of dollars for a high end stereo system.
I couldn't disagree more. I also watched the US open, and today some college football on HDTV and have been doing so for almost 4 years. I can't imagine how you could not see a tremendous difference between HDTV and standard definition. In fact, I almost never watch regular TV unless I have to. This was largely the case for the first year or so that I had this unit (Mitsubishsi 65899 Diamond). Thankfully now, just about every station has its HDTV equivalent on our cable listings.
A high end stereo system addresses an environment where my ear is the only source of information. I have to spend a lot of money to hear the violas playing under the violins. With television, there are so many sources of information, that it really takes a lot to give me more than I am already getting.
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