Phillips will be sending repairmen to your homes to install new parts.

Please don't draw down on them!

In fact don't draw down on any plasma tvs.  They're expensive.

No, I meant the repairmen

Its okay to draw down on the telly

There is some good news on the HDTV front: Sony has said that they are leaving the analog port on the new Blu-Ray players open for now (Blu-Ray players are due out at the end of March 2006).
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060314-6377.html

....Previously, Sony said that they would block high-definition output on the analog feed, only allowing it on the standardized digital feed. The reason given involved preventing people from making copies of high-definition media.

The practical problem with this is that many of the HDTV's already sold only have analog ports for HD input,,,, -so many of those people wouldn't have been able to view high-definition video from the Blu-Ray players at all, despite just recently having paid lots of cash for a high-definition television (-or I suppose, for another HDTV, after the first one has blown up). And roughly $900 for a Blu-Ray videodisk player.

.....Or, as I heavily suspect, after deciding NOT to spend $900 for a Blu-Ray videodisk player.... My guess is that Sony did a bit of last-minute polling and found they were about to give birth to a $900 Minidisk.
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Quoted: There is some good news on the HDTV front: Sony has said that they are leaving the analog port on the new Blu-Ray players open for now (Blu-Ray players are due out at the end of March 2006). arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060314-6377.html ....Previously, Sony said that they would block high-definition output on the analog feed, only allowing it on the standardized digital feed. The reason given involved preventing people from making copies of high-definition media. The practical problem with this is that many of the HDTV's already sold only have analog ports for HD input,,,, -so many of those people wouldn't have been able to view high-definition video from the Blu-Ray players at all, despite just recently having paid lots of cash for a high-definition television (-or I suppose, for another HDTV, after the first one has blown up). And roughly $900 for a Blu-Ray videodisk player. .....Or, as I heavily suspect, after deciding NOT to spend $900 for a Blu-Ray videodisk player.... My guess is that Sony did a bit of last-minute polling and found they were about to give birth to a $900 Minidisk. ~

I wish I knew what all of this technical crap means. I need a new TV and don't have a clue where to start.

Last time I bought a TV the only options I had to worry about were brand name and screen size.

Quoted: I wish I knew what all of this technical crap means. I need a new TV and don't have a clue where to start. Last time I bought a TV the only options I had to worry about were brand name and screen size.

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I could care less about HDTV... I never really watch TV anymore anyhow...