50% of HDTV Owners Don't Use HD

Ant writes "Broadband Reports and Techdirt posted The Technology Liberation Front's article that said apparently half of all High Definition Television (HDTV) owners don't actually use the HD capabilities of their set, and nearly a quarter think they are watching high definition video when they actually haven't set it up correctly. Set-top box maker, Scientific Atlanta's survey, noted that HDTV sets will be in approximately 16 million homes across the country by the end of the year."

Comments

Re:it's the show that counts not the number of pix

[TallMatthew]

The lack of colour didn't really harm the experience. (only as a kid i thouight big bird was white).

Big Bird's a brother?

I'm biased because we live in a house that's so much more enjoyable to live in because it has no TV, but let's face it: HDTV is for wankers.

There's nothing more annoying than the piety of someone who doesn't own a television. Well, the piety of a church elder, I suppose.

Re:See how wide it is? That's the HDTV working

[Professor_UNIX]

I'm still trying to handle my own disconnect at the idea of someone watching baseball while they have their nails done in a salon.

Maybe it's the homophobe side of me, but I can't tell if the original poster was a homosexual man or a woman. I didn't think women drank beer and watched baseball, but why would a non-gay man got to a salon and get a manicure and massage?

Re:Not set up properly

[crabpeople]

How i read your post:

"HDMI? DVI? WTF? No wonder no-one can set it up properly."

LOL you dont know what DVI is? what are you some kind of mac user?

"All you TV geeks should learn some things about user friendliness from Apple/Google"

oh. alright then.