Saturday, November 19, 2005
Re: Caveat
The FCC hasn't yet rolled back the HDTV deadline, which is still set at December 31, 2006. What this means is that broadcasters are going to have to provide all-digital television broadcasts by the end of next year. Even though more and more stations are offering HD content I can't see the changeover being completed by then--possibly at the end of 2007 or 2008, but not by the end of 2006.
I was grousing about this at work, as I was telling the gentlemen there about my plan to get an HDTV AFTER the transition; I reason that after the changeover prices on HD monitors will fall significantly. This would push the plan to get such a TV back by several years, which would definitely cause a serious discrepancy between the Xbox 360 buying and the HDTV buying. And after continuing my 360 research it looks like the only way to play these games is going to be on an HD monitor.
Happily, one of my coworkers said that when he bought his HDTV (not the kind I'd be looking at, as he got the 72" one for the 60" price [?!?]) he noticed they were dropping the prices on the HDTVs significantly. So I looked yesterday, and indeed, they have fallen into the "affordable" range--you can get a nice 26-30" 16:9 CRT HDTV at about the same price as a premium 360 and a couple games, or a premium 360 with a game and a couple controllers.
So I'm erasing the caveat of my previous post, or at least updating it with this: I shall acquire an HDTV, and definitely around (if not before) the time I acquire a 360.
This take differs somewhat from Susanne's. I mentioned an HDTV yesterday and she said "no." Twice. This was naturally before I showed her how reasonably priced they have become--at which point she said, "You can get either an Xbox 360 or an HDTV."
Good thing I knew she meant--but forgot--to end that sentence with "first."
I was grousing about this at work, as I was telling the gentlemen there about my plan to get an HDTV AFTER the transition; I reason that after the changeover prices on HD monitors will fall significantly. This would push the plan to get such a TV back by several years, which would definitely cause a serious discrepancy between the Xbox 360 buying and the HDTV buying. And after continuing my 360 research it looks like the only way to play these games is going to be on an HD monitor.
Happily, one of my coworkers said that when he bought his HDTV (not the kind I'd be looking at, as he got the 72" one for the 60" price [?!?]) he noticed they were dropping the prices on the HDTVs significantly. So I looked yesterday, and indeed, they have fallen into the "affordable" range--you can get a nice 26-30" 16:9 CRT HDTV at about the same price as a premium 360 and a couple games, or a premium 360 with a game and a couple controllers.
So I'm erasing the caveat of my previous post, or at least updating it with this: I shall acquire an HDTV, and definitely around (if not before) the time I acquire a 360.
This take differs somewhat from Susanne's. I mentioned an HDTV yesterday and she said "no." Twice. This was naturally before I showed her how reasonably priced they have become--at which point she said, "You can get either an Xbox 360 or an HDTV."
Good thing I knew she meant--but forgot--to end that sentence with "first."
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