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disposal company offers to charge casts does not make this a practical light processing (DLP)-type televime $15 to dispose of a television 24" option for use any time soon. sions. My next television will be a or smaller and $25 for those larger. I Added to the confusion of HD 42" DLP HD-only television. asked them, “For those fees you screen resolution is the confusion (A side issue: While liquid crystal over HD DVD players. Blu-ray is yet then recycle them, right?” The lady displays (LCDs) and plasma displays another new standard for HD video on the phone said, “No, we put them (PDs) have sharp pictures, there’s that both confuses and adds possibiliin our landfill.” Therein lies my some concern about issues of ties to the home electronics market. fourth point. unrepairable blown pixels (small If you are uninformed about the Now is the time for politicians to dots of light that make the screen status of HD broadcasts in your put our “Earth First” and “Think image) and screen burn-in from the area, TitanTV.com has the most Green”! We do not want, or need, 300 new HDTV television logos that accurate and comprehensive TV million television sets going to our appear continuously in a corner of listings available online. TitanTV area landfills! the screen. I think that this pointless provides a free comprehensive proI propose a possible solution: advertisement of HDTV should be gram guide that includes digital Waive the tax on sales of new digital eliminated by federal legislation. We HDTV units accompanied by the (including HDTV), analog, cable, and didn’t have those logos in the days return of older usable analog sets. satellite listings. of analog and we don’t need them The analog units collected could be now. In my opinion, once on the half sent to other countries, such as in hour would be enough for this form Disposing of Old Sets South and Central America, not of station identification and bragging Having done much research adopting the HDTV standard. rights to having digital HD signals.) online, along with interviewing television dealers and several local The cost of plasma is still a factor station owners, I still am left with Final Thoughts in much of the new television marone question: What are we to do As both television viewers and ket, but should continue to decrease with all of those old analog televisubject experts, technology educaas it has since the sets were introsion sets after 2-17-09? tors need to be knowledgeable duced five years ago. While I may Once again, it appears our naabout the dramatic changes that own stock in DLP technology, I admit new television technology that the LCDs and plasmas will soon bring about. All have a brightness and Americans will be affected sharpness that is truly eye by the elimination of anacatching. Digital broadcasts have advantages log signals next February, However, Texas Instruin terms of how much data can be and I hope that the material ments has been running a transmitted, how consistent the I’ve provided and issues television advertisement data stays over distance, and what with a little girl and an elI’ve raised in this article will type of data the signal can carry in ephant with the theme, “It’s be helpful to you and to the mirrors!” The ad refers people who may turn to you a smaller bandwidth. to the fact that non-DLP for information and guidtelevision sets of both LCD ance. and plasma varieties someReferences times show blurred images Circuit City. Important information about during rapid motion. This the February 17, 2009 DTV Transition. Retrieved October 2006 from http:// seems to be an issue with transmistional leaders haven’t done their www.circuitcity.com/rpsm/cat/-13416/ sion rates of objects in fast motion homework. When you consider that edOid/145447/rpem/ccd/lookLearn.do. and these two types of televisions the average American home now has Consumer Electronic Association. A consumer’s guide to the wonderful being able to display the screen 2.4 television sets each, and that world of HDTV. Retrieved December image accurately. For both DLP and there are 131,606,000 dwellings in 2006 from www.CE.org/hdtv. CRT HDTV, this is not a concern. America, we have something around Consumer Electronic Association. HDTV An additional issue for new 300 million analog television sets to winter 2006 guide. Retrieved December 2006 from www.CE.org/hdtvguide. purchasers of HDTVs is resolution. dispose of in some fashion in 2009! Dove Consulting. Results of 2003 HDTV The hot, new buzzwords about in Granted, some analogs will be survey. Retrieved November 2003 from HDTV are 1080i (interlaced) versus kept around to use with HD conwww.doveconsulting.com/article_ download/HDTV_Nov03.pdf. 1080p (progressive scan). While the verter boxes and older tape, video Informa Telecoms & Media. HDTV a global 1080p offers a slightly better picture, disk, and CD playing devices, but analysis first edition. Retrieved March current digital television broadcast what about all the rest and all the 2006 from http://www.informatm.com/ itmgcontent/icoms. related obsolete technology that will systems and standards are not Overseas Best Buy, Inc. FAQs:HDTV, 2005. go with analog television communiequipped for 1080p transmissions. Retrieved December 2006 from http:// cations and their NTCS standard? 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