HDTV Consumers Are Not Idiots and Maybe Your TV Shows Suck
Yahoo picked up a story from Audioholics citing a survey in which 12 million people that had HDTV's weren't even watching HDTV programs. Then it went on to say that 25% of those people didn't even realize that they weren't watching HDTV television.
This reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Homer responds to Kent the anchorman with "People can make up all sorts of uses for statistics. 40% of all people know that."
I have seen so many stories in the last year by the mainstream media about how 'confusing' HDTV technology is and how half the people who have an HDTV don't even know they aren't watching true high-definition programming. (See how I threw my own statistic in there off the cuff? Pretty good, no?)
First of all, the average Joe Sixpack buying a HDTV is not an idiot. Sure, he might not know exactly what he's buying or the difference between 720p and 1080p, but he knows that the picture on that new HDTV is a lot clearer and brigther than his 25 in Zenith at home.
Second, I think there are a lot of people buying HDTV's for DVD movie watching and not necessarily for TV shows. Oh, I could give you a percentage on this, but 56% of you would know that the population size of my survey would invalidate my results in any real scientific journal. Let's face it - TV shows suck. The one's that are any good you can download through iTunes or Xbox Live or buy it on DVD. How many HD channels do you get in your area? In my area I can probably get 10 or so, if I'm lucky. There is not a lot of HD programming in most areas right now.
A 60 inch HDTV today looks a lot better than a 60 in projection TV only a few years ago. (Yeah, do you remember those? You could only view the screen at a 133 degree angle and while everything was big on the screen the image quality was lacking)
Third, if someone did buy an HDTV without having any clue of how to get HDTV programming onto it, his friends would make fun of him and he would call the cable company the next day to hook it up. Any idiot can do that as 94% of us know.
This reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Homer responds to Kent the anchorman with "People can make up all sorts of uses for statistics. 40% of all people know that."
I have seen so many stories in the last year by the mainstream media about how 'confusing' HDTV technology is and how half the people who have an HDTV don't even know they aren't watching true high-definition programming. (See how I threw my own statistic in there off the cuff? Pretty good, no?)
First of all, the average Joe Sixpack buying a HDTV is not an idiot. Sure, he might not know exactly what he's buying or the difference between 720p and 1080p, but he knows that the picture on that new HDTV is a lot clearer and brigther than his 25 in Zenith at home.
Second, I think there are a lot of people buying HDTV's for DVD movie watching and not necessarily for TV shows. Oh, I could give you a percentage on this, but 56% of you would know that the population size of my survey would invalidate my results in any real scientific journal. Let's face it - TV shows suck. The one's that are any good you can download through iTunes or Xbox Live or buy it on DVD. How many HD channels do you get in your area? In my area I can probably get 10 or so, if I'm lucky. There is not a lot of HD programming in most areas right now.
A 60 inch HDTV today looks a lot better than a 60 in projection TV only a few years ago. (Yeah, do you remember those? You could only view the screen at a 133 degree angle and while everything was big on the screen the image quality was lacking)
Third, if someone did buy an HDTV without having any clue of how to get HDTV programming onto it, his friends would make fun of him and he would call the cable company the next day to hook it up. Any idiot can do that as 94% of us know.
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