Keith, SDTV will still be around for a long long time. First off, few programmers are jumping up and down to go HD. Second if most did, there is not enough space on cable systems or satellite to handle them. I recently bought a Toshiba EDTV, better than SD, but not quite HD. It gives me 480i/480p and is widescreen. I did not want HD, as there just is not enough programming out there worth the expense to me. Plus a lot of HDTV sets, the SD stuff looks quite poor on it. I am not into Sports and what I watch is not available in HD anyway and may never be. The mandate in 2009 I guess to go all digital for over the air channels. For satellite, we have been watching digital for years anyway. The new Toshiba I bought does have the built in digital tuner if I need one. But the only over the air here are translators and who knows when they will go digital. But I think the public is going to be more excited about HDTV than HD Radio (As they call it). I went looking through a few catalogs last night, including Radio Shack and others. What I saw were pages and pages of not radios, but mp3 players. Only a few radios were there, but if you want mp3, you have a huge choice from ones that will hold 250 songs to 5,000 songs and above. By that, it is very easy to see where the industry is going. They sure aren't interested in radio! Especially AM radio! However a few of the mp3 players did have an FM radio included, not AM though. Just FM. Is AM radio going to exist period in another 10 years? Good question. Maybe it will be wide open to DX our hearts out with foreign stations, as everyone else have left the AM band. We can hope though.
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