The number of televisions estimated that sit unused in closets.
The EPA estimates that nearly 100 million unused televisions are currently taking up precious, beautiful space. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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90% of Best Buy employees still don't understand HDTV...
I argued with a guy in the HDTV department for 10 minutes about how he said that you can tell the difference of 1080p on any set 50" and larger, no matter how far away you are. I explained to him that the screen size, resolution and viewing distance are all dependent on each other. He (essentially) told him me I was an idiot and insisted he could tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on the wall of 50" plasmas that we stood 50 feet from.
QAM is supposed to refer to unencrypted (unscrambled) digital channel reception without a decoder box.
However the image quality of those digital channels will vary from cable company to cable company. All cable companies are compressing the digital & digital hd channles they send to their customers and many of them are sending a blend of analog and digital together, few subscribers realize this.
The cleanest digital image quality one can find is Over-The Air using a tradtional UHF antenna mounted outside your home.