HIGH DEFINITION – GET IT NOW? WAIT?
Jump in now? Wait and see? Maybe you’ve already decided to experience the glories of HDTV — but what you don’t know is when to get in. Here are some compelling new reasons to consider making the move now. Reason #1: Stable Technology Going HD doesn’t mean taking chances on soon-to-be obsolete hardware or disappearing providers. Years of vigorous testing by an alliance of corporate, academic and government entities — some pushing analog solutions, others digital — led to the establishment of technical standards in 1996. (Digital won.) In 2000, the FCC re-confirmed the digital standard for HD, which has been adopted industry-wide. Now the FCC is requiring all commercial stations to make digital the dominant mode: eighteen months from now, all stations will have to broadcast all programming digitally, and they’ll have to shut off analog signals for good by the end of 2006.
