No Business Case for HDTV? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 27, 2006 @01:27PM from the dire-just-means-higher-prices-for-consumers dept.

Lev13than writes "The head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation argues that there is no business model for HDTV. Speaking at a regulatory hearing being held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), CBC president Robert Rabinovitch noted that 'There's no evidence either in Canada or the United States that we have found for advertisers willing to pay a premium for a program that's in HD.' In order to cope with infrastructure and programming costs that are roughly 25 per cent higher, Rabinovitch proposes that the CBC start charging cable and satellite companies to carry their signal, and to limit over-the-air transmission. HDTV — good for Best Buy, bad for broadcasters?"

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Re:Hooray for sanity by interiot · 2006-11-27 13:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Graphics simply do not matter.

That's the misstatement of the year. Do you really intend to suggest that everyone does their work on a cell-phone screen?
No, graphics do matter, they're just not the only thing that matters (or even the most important thing).