Robroy
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Aug 27, 2005, 4:09 AM
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Re: [denonjapan] Need help.. external tuner for 42" plasma
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I think you are way behind the times and very much uninformed. I watch HDTV broadcast every night free from my over the air antennae, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS are all broadcasting HDTV right now with almost all their prime time line up with more coming every day, Leno and Conan are already HD and Letterman is coming HD soon. They all broadcast full 16X9 HDTV, either 1080 or 720 which, by the way, is considered HDTV, and is far superior to EDTV which is only 480. Plus if you are a football fan, almost all the NFL and College football games will be broadcast in Hi-Def this year. I just got done watching a Fox preseason game that was even broadcast in Hi-Def. That's not to even mention all the HDTV that I can get with my DirecTV HDTV package. By this time next year you will read this post and feel foolish for recommending an EDTV over an HDTV. It's a stupid argument, it's like buying a Corvett and telling the dealer you only want a 4 cylinder engine in it. No stations are broadcasting EDTV, none, it's either 720 or 1020 HDTV or else Standard digital/analog. OK, tommorows DVDs will be Hi-Def, the newer movies are already made (filmed) in HDTV and the older ones are upconverted, which while is not near as good as pure (filmed) HDTV, it will still be in 1020 or 720 and will still look very good, and much better on an HDTV than an EDTV. Are EDTVs HDTV capable like denonjapan contends, sure they are, but they downconvert the signal from 1080 to 480, again using the corvett analogy, it's like buying a Corvett with a V8 and removing 4 spark plugs and then bragging that you have a V8. Do some research, Japan doesn't even sale EDTV sets. They send them all over here to the stupid US customers. Oh by the way, DVDs have always been digital not analog anyway.
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