The New HDTV Experience
January 20th, 2008
TV has come a long way in the last ten years…
…I’m hoping my ancient TVs hold on for one or two more years.
TV has come a long way in the last ten years…
…I’m hoping my ancient TVs hold on for one or two more years.
Isn’t this an alternate future where Java stayed in set-top boxes?
We have 3 HDTVs each with a HD-DVR; and with all the HD channels on DirecTV we hardly watch anything in standard definition anymore. I can’t imagine going back to a 4:3 SDTV.
Regular TV is a festering smelly wasteland, but all the educational stuff in HD is great. We just finished watching Planet Earth on Blu-ray disk and it is stunning.
So you see absolutely nothing wrong with the complexity of today’s TV tech landscape. Ok. Yeah. I get it. Uh huh.
What is it that’s complex that bothers you? You use it like you would a legacy TV. Plug in in your set top box, turn it on, change channels and watch, record, etc. That’s exactly how I use 2 of my sets. Got a DVD player? That works the same too. My third HDTV has multiple sources (HD-DVR, DVD, Blu-ray, etc) and is integrated with a Dolby Digital/DTS 7.1 home theater sound system. That’s not any more complex than I had with my last SDTV (which had a Dolby Digital 5.1 sound system).
I like watching 2 channels at once, especially when half the screen is a video game. I feel like I’m in one of those movies. Mitsubishi has a tv like that. life would be much simpler if EVERYTHING WERE USB. and I do mean everything.
I’ve yet to find a good excuse to buy a new tv though