HDTV and Home Theater

HDTV PRICES FALL TO ALMOST AFFORDABLE LEVELS

Though hardly low enough to prompt impulse purchases, the prices of high-definition TV sets have fallen for some 32- and 36-inch models, and HDTV sales are up 50% through August, while prices are down 22%.
A CBS executive said that, in the spite of slow development of HDTV program offerings, high-definition TV is "a business now", not just a hobby.
But there are still a lot of issues, that are more technological than business,that need to be resolved.
One issue waiting for resolution is the question of how content suppliers can prevent the recording and illegal reuse of high-definition entertainment fare.
A whole new generation of homeowner options are appearing for accessing video - multi-TV video servers (both embedded systems and PC-based systems), tablets, PDAs - and broadband (DVD quality bitrates) streaming video (IP/Ethernet).
The vast majority of these systems are not MPEG 6Mhz RF channel based.
They are based upon ethernet, and transports that look like ethernet (802.11 wireless, HomePNA, HomePlug).

An ethernet TV (10/100/1000), stripped of all of today's connectivity options, analog coax, analog RBG, analog component, and the newly standardized cable FCC connectivity option - 1-way hybrid analog-digital MPEG RF coax - would probably be $100 cheaper (list). Is that a scenario interesting to consumers/manufacturers?

Comcast Exceeds One Million HDTV-Capable Set-Top Boxes; Demand
for HDTV Service Propelled by Super Bowl
- Feb 2, 2005 11:34 AM (PR Newswire)

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- As Super Bowl frenzy reaches a fever pitch, Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), announced it has now deployed more than one million high-definition television (HDTV)-capable Digital Cable set-top boxes in customers' homes, adding more than 800,000 of them in 2004 alone.
In addition, Comcast has experienced a 143% increase in the number of customers connecting HDTV sets to Comcast's HD service during January 2005 versus January 2004.

In 2007 WE ARE THERE.
We arrived to the Home Theater and finally to HDTV
The personal computer has moved out of the office and den into the living room, kitchen and bedroom.
The arrival of the more flexible personal computers is aimed at permitting the industry to make big inroads into the consumer market as digital television replaces conventional analog TV, a move that is expected to lead Americans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few years on things like new big-screen displays and home-theater-in-a-box sets.
Examples of this are the ones you can find browsing Electronics Catalog

Wireless networking will level the playing field by letting any electronic device
communicate with any other, allowing the current cable and satellite providers of television signals to control not just how movies are viewed in the home but also to some extent how video games and music are played.
Seeing classic films in their original form, for example on a Samsung HL-S6187W 61 Widescreen (16:9) - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Pixels reveals the vast difference between what we are used to and quality home theater.
Most Americans now would rather watch films at home than in theaters.
"I just prefer to stay home and watch movies," said Mark Gil, 34, of Central Square, N.Y. "It's cheaper. ... By the time you're done at the movie theater with sodas and stuff, it's 20 bucks."
That is why devices like Pioneer PDP-5070HD PureVision 50' Plasma HDTV are getting more and more popular.


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