The mind of a TV junkie.
This leads to robertpaulsen's Myth #11: You can receive them with the tuner in your HDTV set or an external DTV set-top receiver, but you need an external HD antenna.
You do not need external HD antenna. Your existing analog antenna is just fine.
There is nothing I love better then telling clerks to take their monster cables and shove them where the sun don’t shine VBG
But Sir they are gold plated, Yeah right you can still shove them other cables work just as well you idiot. Really jerks them off especially those working on commissions.
This whole &O*W$*@!! HD player scam has almost nothing to do with the technology, but rather it's a sufficiently-bullet-proof toll both to be used by the Hollywood types to extract more money from movie lovers.
One doesn't need HD-DVD or Blu-Ray Discs (BD)to get exquisite HD. As Peter Putnam said, whole movies in the same quality as BD/HD-DVD will fit onto home burnt DVDs. Two thirds of such movies would probably require a commercially-pressed DVD9, but the point is, it could all be made to work within existing technology, but no, that's not good enough for the Hollywood types. They know their DVD encryption scheme was broken, and since they can afford new, bulletproof toys, they'll use our desire for first-run movies to make us buy such devices, so their wallets will continue to get fatter.
The Chinese EVDs are backward-compatible with standard DVDs, yet are set to deliver HD also. If that standard were licensed to deliver HD content (but it won't, except perhaps by the also-rans), people could see the cost of HD everywhere plummet. By contrast, if BD or HD-DVD are allowed to become predominant, prices to the consumer will stay high, with people being herded like cattle to buy whole new, expensive sets of these new-fangled disks and players.
Those new players are the mechanism Hollywood will use to redefine ownership of intellectual property, which they've already done to a large extent, through the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which has turned Susie Homemaker and Ferris CollegeStudent into criminals. You no longer own your DVDs. Though it's entirely technicaly feasible for you to protect your DVD purchases and your media library's potential obsolescence, deterioration, and accidental surface damage, you've been made a criminal if you try to make an archival copy of something you thought you owned. To enforce these extensions against the Fair Use Doctrine, Hollywood, using taxpayer money has enlisted Big Brother Gubmint to go to bat for them and be their very own cops.
Meanwhile, you're not being told that every customer-desirable quality that BD and HD-DVD can deliver could also be delivered on media and players costing far less, at nearly the same price as current DVD players.
If consumers want to buy again their favorite movies in a new format, great! More power to 'em. For the rest of us, DVDs are still a very robust medium that can deliver the best quality technology has to offer.
The BD / HD-DVD War? A pox on both their greedy houses! Fleeting empowerment of consumers by offering them a "Count Chocula versus Frankenberry" choice distracts from the fact that either way, the same manufacturer gets your money and you get the expensive sugar.
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I got my cables here for roughly 10 cents on the dollar of Monster prices.
http://www.cablewholesale.com/catalog/hdmianddvicable.htm
I got my cables here for roughly 10 cents on the dollar of Monster prices.
http://www.cablewholesale.com/catalog/hdmianddvicable.htm
I got my cables here for roughly 10 cents on the dollar of Monster prices.
http://www.cablewholesale.com/catalog/hdmianddvicable.htm
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