TV Tech: 10 Dumbest Things I've Seen In 10 Years

tvpredictions.com ^ | Phillip Swann

[buccaneer81]

And to this day, there are reports that many low-income Americans still do not have the right equipment to watch the new digital signals.

I don't believe that for a second. If there are people in that situation, they're dumber than the idiots who hung out in New Orleans for Katrina.

[KC_Lion]

watched by fewer people than a September baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Indians

OUCH!

[uncle fenders]

Wow, until now I never realized the huge digital crossover delay scam was a George Bush act of sabotage !

Thankfully Captain telepromter is just destroying
EVERYTHING ELSE !

[AFreeBird]

My GF was pressured by a patient to go with Comcast (she’s a Comcast emp). So GF has me review the tech specs for the Comcast DVR, and then talk with the Comcast rep.

Compared to her current Dish ViP722 DVR, it was a no brainer. Going with Comcast would have been a step down. You can plug a 1+TB USB drive into the 722. In addition, it can record three separate channels at once. 2 Dish, and 1 OTA. And the built in drive was larger.

Dumb.

How can you come out with a DVR with lessor specs than others currently available, especially if they’re available to a competitors customer you’re trying to entice.

Dumb

And personally, I like the Dish DVR software better than the TiVo. I’ve seen the TiVo on friends systems, but I still like the Dish better.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

He’s got #5 exactly back-assward; HD-DVD was the agreed format, worked on for years by manufacturers and content providers, when Sony decided to pee in the pool, ditch the consortium, and launch its own proprietry HD format. Sony then spent billions in bribes and ‘incentives’ to muscle others into accepting Blu. The final blow was a half-a-billion dollar bribe to Warners to get their agreement to switch exclusively to Blu; within days, Toshiba folded. Up to then it could have gone either way.

Sony svcks.

And regarding VOOM, executive greed got the better of that company. Its HD programming was superior to anything anyone else was offering back then, and superior to most HD (Oprah, anyone? Green?) even today. Their failure to reach agreement on contract renewals with Dish killed them when Dolan wouldn’t moderate his demands. Just plain stupid.

[Politicalmom]

I recently got Bluray, solely because I wanted a 400 disc megachanger so my kids would stop destroying my movies. It also upconverts all my old DVDs. I never bought any high-def movies.

I have to admit, Bluray is awesome, but I’m still only buying movies I don’t have, and only when they are a huge deal. I did get Fantasia for the kids for Christmas, and that is unbelievable on the 50” plasma. :)

[cicero2k]

As for TiVO. I remember the marketing blitz in 2000-2001 for TiVo. At the time we all had VCRs and were skeptical. In 2002 I purchased TiVo anyway and the installer said that TiVo was the biggest advance in TV since the VCR and color. I thought it was hyperbole, but soon understood and probably "sold" TiVo to 10 other familes.

So I never understood why the TiVo could not parlay their invention into market dominating force, and had to let cable operators steal it from them.

The DVR along with the Smartphone were major behavior changers of the decade.

[allmendream]

A good friend works in the 3D conversion trade.

He knows it is a niche market.