14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
4:25 p.m.
?
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 3/14/07, Billy Pettit <Billy.Pettit at wdc.com
<http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk> > wrote:
But TVs are expected to have a normal life of 15 years
before becoming
obsolete (in the eyes of the industry, not the user). It's a big dilemma
for us.
Try buying an analog (non-HD) TV and trying to get 15 years out of it
in the US. It'll make a fine monitor for a cable box or a DVD player
or a VCR, but it won't work as a TV after 2009.
Would that not be "obsolete" well before 15 years?
-ethan
To me, certainly. But then I regard any analog TV as obsolete already, even
if it is still in production.
And I don't know anybody trying to put a hard drive in an analog TV. It
really serves no useful purpose.
Billy