"Well, in case you have forgotten or haven't heard, all TV broadcasts will be switched over to HDTV by (in?) 2006. Last I heard, our old TVs will cease to work (unless you are playing your own VCR tapes or DVDs), and if Joe Sixpack wants to see the SuperBowl, he will have to buy a new TV, for a couple thousand dollars ("
TV's won't cease to work. By 2006 there will most likely be inexpensive HDTV convertors that will take the digital signal and convert it to plain old NTSC for all the existing tv's out there. People need to not be so paranoid about this.
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Except that those of us who don't have monitors attached to view the "pop up error message" can actually find a legitamite use for this.