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50% of HDTV Owners Don't Use HD

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the blinking-12:00 dept.

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."

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  1. HD for dummies by sethwoodworth · · Score: 5, Funny

    My parents are convinced that they are watching HD in their very rural home town. But then again these are the people who were equally convinced that letterbox cuts off the top and bottom of the picture.

  2. Let me guess by ClippySay · · Score: 5, Funny

    / Your newly generated marketing word is: \
    |                 HDTV.                   |
    \ Want more?                              /
            \     ____
             \   / __ \
              \  O|  |O|
                 ||  | |
                 ||  | |
                 ||    |
                  |___/

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  3. Re:No Surprise by pjeremyh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea, I once read that 50% of Americans are below average intelligence.

  4. I don't doubt it.. by deep44 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I pushed my father (who likes watching television) to purchase an HDTV a couple years ago. He simply wanted a "big screen", but after reviewing the numerous benefits of high-def over and over again (at gunpoint), he finally gave in. I took care of ordering Comcast's HD service for him as well- so in my mind, he's living life in the fast lane for once!

    Fast forward two years- I find out he's shopping for a DVR. He's sold on one that will let him record directly to DVDs, but in standard definition. I asked him why the hell he would want to waste a perfectly good DVD on crap like that, and he told me it's because his VCR is starting to flake out.

    I say, "VCR? What VCR? (I run downstairs to find 50+ VCR tapes of recorded standard-def movies with commercials, meaning he taped them off network television) What the fu- ahh, nevermind. Yeah, get the DVR with a DVD burner. I'll grab you a 500-pack of blanks for Christmas."

    Some folks just don't care enough to change how they enjoy life.. even when their asshole childen, like me, threaten them. Well... that means it's time to play hardball.

  5. Re:I believe it by alnapp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never mix Parents and Tech
    Unless you never want to leave "home" again ;-)

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  6. Re:See how wide it is? That's the HDTV working by Daverd · · Score: 5, Funny

    They look like pure sex. They have COX

    I don't even know where to begin making a joke about this.

  7. Re:Not set up properly by doublem · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've always felt the goal of technology was to become as unintrusive as possible. Making things that "just work" without fiddling or even minimal setup is one way to make technology invisible.

    MAC users, bleh

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  8. Re:I believe it by pomo+monster · · Score: 5, Funny

    With you 100%. I peel the labels off everything I buy. Grandma's body was found facedown by the medicine cabinet.

  9. Re:I believe it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You misspelled local hardware store.