[opendtv] Finally, abundant DTV sets and honest marketing
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:18:07 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Due to an unpleasant family task, I find myself decamped to Elko, Nevada
through the end of this week.
Last night, to get some space, I went shopping, with the idea in mind to buy a
cheap microphone. I didn't find the microphone
What I did find was a large selection of digital and DTV sets on display, with
prices ranging from $398 (27 inch sanyo direc view) to $1995 or so (42 inch
flat screen). EACH set indicated either "Includes digitalanalog tune" or
"requires HDTV tuner." Many signs advocated the upgrade to HDTV.
This in a town with only one local TV station, which I doubt is digital (I will
try to check, but time is short). I don't know whether the pictures on all the
sets were from ota sources: I saw many DVDs being played.
All told, there were more than 15 different sets.
What was the name of this retailer? Wal-Mart. With no Circuit City or Best
Buy stores withn a few hundred miles. In other words, they are the electronics
retailer in this neck of the woods. This is a wider and maybe deeper selection
of DTV/HDTV sets than I have ever seen in a retail store.
It's the first time I have seen honesty in the point of purchase marketing
materials for DTV sets. If I wanted to whine, the only thing I can whine
about is that they didn't say on analog sets that "analog broadcasting will
cease at some point in the future."
John Willkie
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