To HDTV or Not to HDTV? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Thursday December 27, 2001 @04:30PM from the but-there's-plenty-of-time-until-2006 dept.

fishrokka asks: "I'm considering buying an HDTV, but before I jump in I wanted to get Slashdot's opinion. The demos I've seen at stores look great, but is it worth the extra money? I would love to hear some real-life experiences..." I have yet to actually go out and see a demo of HDTV, but from what I hear, it's markedly better than the current analog technology. Although there are HDTV broadcasts to be found today, the FCC deadline for adoption of the format is not until sometime in 2006. Are the current HDTV implementations worth the pricetags, especially when one can limp along with their existing TVs for another 4 years?

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I think it's a bad idea... by Lobsang · 2001-12-27 16:35 · Score: 2, Redundant

First of all, what are you going to watch there? HDTV requires a LARGE amount of bandwidth and most broadcasters would just rather have 12 regular channels than 1 HDTV channel in a sat transponder, for instance.

I'd wait...