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Tanks JR, I won’t buy a Plasma…lucky I’m not a punter.

Sorry Les – gotta go with Thumper on this. I hate some of the shit that is passed off as entertainement but I have found (after years of extensive study) that if you don’t like something that is on the box with the moving pictures – try not watching it!

The problem is that digital television only improves the visual quality, not the barrel-scraping content we’re stuck with. I reckon they should just switch off TV altogether!

Just think about it: No more Big Brother, Aus Idol, Popstars, Backyard Blitz, Neighbours, Home & Away, TodayTonight, Eddie Maguire, Deal or no deal, or any shit Americana we’re constantly berrated with.

Oh praise be to whoever delivers us the gift of freedom from television!

Wow,

It’s nice to see that our government has now caught up with what happened 10 years ago.

Gosh.

Does this mean that we won’t have to pay for the bus lane for another 10 years.

Me thinks he should get another advisor…

Hey, this about sums up his role, know nothing, and release what the advisors say…

Anyone buying a Plasma now is a total mug punter. LCD remains the better option for the short term even though screen size is marginally smaller.

Plasma have a limited operational lifetime and the majority of the supposedly high end HD ready devices are not genuinely fully HD compliant not supporting the true 1920×1080 (1080p/i) resolutions nor do they provide a HDMI port (which beleive it or not kiddies is going to be mandatory to get the best out of both the new Blue-Ray and DVD-HD DVD formats)

An alternative option that looks very promising is the Canon SED technology:

http://www.canon.com/technology/display/

Vader – TV’s sold now won’t be obselete in that a set top box can be hooked up to an analogue set sowe can all enjoy high definition garbage. I agree with you that the market isn’t following our decision though – remember when the analogue mobile were phased out in ’99 – you couldn’t buy or connect and analogue phone from Jan ’99 – and the digital phones were the same price from about September ’97 – thus giving us all a little more time to prepare.

I’d like to see it written into our Bill of Rights that all men, women, children (and their pets) will have access to a qualitytelly…not one of those little B&W’s, but a decent-sized plasma ready for HDTV.

Televisions have a life expectancy of what – 15 years? It used to be more, but we’re a throwaway society these days.

It seems odd to me that we were only 2 years away from shutting down the analogue network (4 years now) and it is still almost impossible to buy a digital TV (it IS impossible to find an affordable one).

If the feds were serious about it, surely they would have legislated that all TVs sold from a certain date (5 years minimum before shutdown of analogue system) would have to be digital.

Surely selling goods, knowing that they would be unusable (without the purchase of additional equipment) within 4 years, should be made illegal?

Woolworths:
SD TV Tuner $85
SD TV Tuner + DVD $129

Aldi:
SD TV Tuner $69
HD TV Tuner $250

And whilst we’re on that Thumper – is anyone else sick to death of having to sit through fifteen minutes of Sydney trafffic woes when we try and watch the news of an evening?