Digital TV drags on

Australian IT - Digital TV drags on :

"OF the 87 per cent of Australian households yet to adopt free-to-air digital TV, 17 per cent have not even heard of the technology, the government's media and communications regulator has found."

Most of us bought a set when they went from medium to large. That is as far as most of us get. Watching TV on a television set. Analog or digital has no relevance. Most of us paid out a lot of money for the large sets, square or widescreen. I know people just want us to keep spending money but it gets to the stage where you have to throw things out which are perfectly okay. Set top boxes are not worth having unless they are high definition and it's really not fair to be selling the standard definition ones. The prices of the high definition ones are still too high at present so we carry on with analog. It's television. My impression is that television is less and less important to people because it no longers things of real value. So shelling out on a digital TV isn't going to happen yet and HD set top boxes need to be cheaper. It's not a peripheral issue. People really are fed up with TV and have become very particular and limited in their viewing.