TVPrediction.com’s Swann Reveals More TV-buying Info
TVPrediction.com’s Swann Reveals More TV-buying Info by Roxanne McDonald
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He set us straight about the DTV; now Phillip Swan gives us much-needed info on HDTV. |
Returning from an HD World Conference and Exposition in New York, Phillip Swann, TVPrediction.com guru reports his findings about high-definition televisions, programming, and the industry.
Swann reports that other than the 30 million HDTV owners, people are waiting for a price-drop—which if it happens, in, say, January through June of 2007, would likely “trigger an explosion in sales.”
The TV expert also notes how while some stations are going high-def, others have not yet made the transition.
Also big on the industry’s radar is the Toshiba/Sony “HDTV DVD war”, which Swann indicates has stymied potential buyers from going for such celebrated (and fought over, evidently) new items as the Blue-ray/HDTV DVD players.
High-definition TV was only a projected concept a year and a half ago, when I first investigated and wrote about what viewers would be compelled to upgrade to to be able to get not only quality reception but reception of any kind. Now, as my techie friend notes, HDTV is a reality for most channels and DTV is soon to be the mainstay for satellite and cable TV users.
This leaves only a few to buy DTVs or DTV converters or to go without. The latter I don’t see happening regardless of whether the prices come down or the electronic monoliths stop jockeying for first place or the TV goes completely digital, back to analog, back to being a boob tube, forward to HD, D, or super Tee.
We need our TV(s).
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