The whole HD thing is really starting to stink. US government forcing adoption of HDTV due to all of the egg on their face because of the lack of interest around their non-open standard.
US governemnt forced to subsidize TV upgrades for the masses so that we can get this "superior" TV that is being mandated by the government. Cost to taxpayers? 1.5 billion. New TV buyers dissatisfied by the lack of HD programming. Cable companies moving channels from basic cable or extended basic to digital cable just to force people to rent their underpowered cable boxes and pay more per month. Eventually there will be a "CableCARD Jon" and we'll be in an awkward position of having *hardware* that is legal to use under Windows and illegal to use under Linux! Then, I'm sure a new standard will be proposed and we'll need to buy new TVs all over again. When will this madness stop??? I think I'll stick with SDTV and use my government HDTV subsidy money to buy another hard drive. -Ross _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
