Re: HDTV Progress too slow, something needs to be done.

"Jack Dotson" <jdotson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I bought my HDTV set over a year ago when the talk was that it would be
>fully implemented and mandatory by 2007. I read that broadcaster would
>have to increase programming by a certain percentage every year, so to me
>that sounded reasonable.
>
> Over a year later and my cable company hasn't added a single channel.
> It's pitiful! In my area we get:
>
> NBC, PBS, ESPN (Not ESPN-2 which is also now available in HD), and TNT.
>
> They sell a HD package for an additional charge which include HDOD, HDNET,
> DHD, INHD, INHD2.
>
> And of course, for another additional charge you get your choice of 2 HBO'
> or 1 ST.
>
> What really pisses me off worse it the vast majority of the programming
> only broadcast over the HD channel, but not in HD.
>
> What good is HD going to be if they don't have any programming. It's like
> buying a SACD machine to playback redbook CD's.
>
> Just venting, this is just taking too damned long.

It's not so much that it's taking too long: the problem is HD was
implemented about 5 years prematurely in the US.

> BTW, are the satellite providers doing any better?

Nope, unless you count the former Voom channels that Dish Network offers
(though I wouldn't be surprised if those didn't eventually consolidate into
fewer channels due to being money pits). And I don't expect any really
substantial change anytime soon.


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