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). ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40786-2004Aug28.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.