[opendtv] HDTV? Clearly Confusing

HDTV? Clearly Confusing
A CRT Satisfies, But Accessories Run Up the Bill

By Jim Hawk
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, August 29, 2004; Page F01

All I wanted to do was buy a new high-definition television -- 
without putting a high-definition dent in my bank account. After 
years of watching on the sidelines, I had decided I was ready to go 
shopping when my cable provider, Comcast, began offering more than a 
dozen high-def channels as well as the ability to record them for 
later viewing.

With my I'm-not-gonna-pay-a-lot-for-this-HDTV mantra, I had to throw 
out thoughts of fashionable, pricey plasma and LCD sets. My choices 
quickly narrowed  to the relatively cheap but absolutely unstylish 
CRT, or cathode-ray tube. And since most retailers carried only two 
or three CRT high-def sets, shopping was relatively easy.

I went with Sony's KD-34XBR960, a 34-inch set that sold for -- gulp 
-- $2,200 but was described in reviews as the best picture at any 
price. (Budget-minded buyers can spend as little as $700 for an HD 
set.)

My HD programming would come through Comcast's cable box that 
included a digital video recorder, and that cost nothing upfront and 
added just $9.95 a month in rental fees. But since that recorder 
could hold only about seven hours of HD programming, I wanted a way 
to archive copies of the best shows. Here, the only option was a 
D-VHS machine, a box using a high-grade version of the venerable tape 
format for recording and playback (a few movies and documentaries are 
available on D-VHS).

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40786-2004Aug28.html

 
 
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