TV Tech: The Biggest Flop of 2011?

tvpredictions.com ^ | August 14, 2011 | Phillip Swann

[RayChuang88]

I think in a few years, when 3840 x 2160 super HDTV makes its debut, you will see a resurgence in new buying TV's again.

Unlike 3-D TV, 3840 x 2160 TV's don't need special viewing glasses, and people who've seen it say that the resolution is so sharp that it looks like seeing a moving version of a picture taken by a medium-format still camera. The only problem: how do you deliver such extreme quality video to the TV? It may require higher-density Blu-ray discs (or going to holographic-storage optical discs) and video delivered by satellite or optical-fiber cable TV connections.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

And to show how some people fall behind on keeping up with technology, I must confess that I have no idea what an HTPC is, or what the homebrew attachment would do.

HTPC = Home Theater PC. Build your own to satisfy your specs or buy something like this or this or this or even this, hook it up to your HDTV and set it up to download programming for you to view at your leisure, stream video from not only Netflix and Hulu but hundreds of news and entertainment sites around the world, time-shift OTA programming, anything you can imagine doing with a video signal and a computer.

[Tunehead54]

Reference bump ... ;-)

[Dacula]

I use Veetle as a player to watch movies that are curently in the theatres or rental. There are sports channels, but the selection is poor.

Does anyone have any alternatives?

[DCBryan1]

Can you add my wife, Jenbean, to the list? She works for Direct TV. Thanks!

[George from New England]

But when the internet provider stands to lose revenue because they also sell satellite or cable, they start to degrade the internet service as a marketing scheme. Even VoIP suffers because the phone company wants you to pay for phone service OR ELSE.

Our entire towns DSL service has been suffering for two months because CenturyLink won’t fix it. They take our monies for upgrades to 10 or 15 mbit and then consistently deliver less than 1 mbit.

[Pining_4_TX]

Same here. I am a baseball and football fan, and I can’t see any other way of getting sports programming other than cable or satellite. I am fed up, though, with Fox and others showing obnoxious previews for their disgusting shows during sports programs. Lots of kids watch the World Series, for example, and Fox shows previews that are really suggestive. It makes me angry. Children are exposed to so much smut these days.