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18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD
An anonymous reader writes "Thinking about upgrading to an HDTV this holiday season? The prices might be great, but some people won't be appreciating the technology as much as everyone else. A report by Leichtman Research Group is claiming that 18% of consumers who are watching standard definition channels on a HDTV think that the feed is in hi-def." (Here's the original story at PC World.)
I am not willing to pay the price difference for HD tv shows
What's the price difference if you already have an HDTV??
I am really surprised at how many people here did not take Economics 101 or slept through the class.
All corporations have a legal responsibility to "INCREASE SHAREHOLDER VALUE" -- that is it, bottom line, you and I don't count.
And as far as that "consumer" attitude, I don't need that either, danged near starved to death at BestBuy with my mouth stuck on that TV trying to eat enough HD's. Tried bar-b-queing, baking, boiling, frying CD's and they are still tough and chewy.
Now, once again I will let you know that the USoA died in the 80's. It was replaced by the UCCA. The United Corporations and Churches of America.
Where the real product is the stock and the true customer is the stockholder and if you don't go to someone's particular Sunday service you are toast - literally in their eyes.
And lastly I'm an administrator of 9-1-1 and the killing off of law enforcement radio freqs. just to have Digital HD Broadcast is a farce, because in a major fire the fire generates EMF that is a harmonic of the freq's and the firefighter walking into the building on the end of the hose will get/send only static. THANKS FCC for being another Hollywood Clueless Stooge.