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I STILL Want My HDTV

Posted by timothy on from the flat-thin-expensive dept.

jhaberman writes: "Slate.com has an opinion piece talking about the horrific mess the HDTV rollout has been. It seems everyone's been to blame from the hardware manufacturers, to the cable/satellite companies, to the producers of the actual shows. I fell into the trap a year ago buying a top of the line Sony Wega digital TV and I STILL don't have ANY HDTV! Here's why..."

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  1. Eeeeeeeeee by Orre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hate when that happens! :-)

  2. Re:Luddites coming out of the woodwork by joss · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Heh, if I were you I would try the "if you* had a life, you wouldn't be reading /." track if I were you. Now *that* might sting a bit...

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  3. ain't it the truth by microbob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It always amazes me how idiots will blabber on about something they don't have a single clue about.

    Hehehe.

  4. Re:They have a point... by dsharp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "And ethanol combustion still produces some greenhouse gas emissions, if you believe in that sort of thing."

    The carbon in the ehtanol was pulled out of the air by the corn to begin with, so the net result is that there is no increase in the overall level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

    Fossil fuels on the other hand, represent carbon that has been lock away from the atmosphere for millenia, thus burning *them* does indeed add to greenhouse emissions.

  5. Re:I dunno... by Computer! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, and unless something else has changed, it's a Vega.

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