This makes me sad, but in my experience is very true. Things I have noticed from customers at my work:
They think the tuner in their HDTV makes everything HD.
There seems to be confusion over HDMI, they see that a DVD player has an HDMI out and automatically think it's an HD player.
As posted above they think Widescreen = HD.
A seemingly huge chunk of them either think all flat panel tv's are plasma or don;t know the difference between plasma and LCD. While that isn't much of an issue, it shows lack of understanding by consumers. This is why I feel HDM is failing. I made a comment to the lady that stocks our dvd section about how I thought it was funny that on the cases of the Blu-Ray discs they have a label stating that you need a PS3 or a Blu-Ray player to play them, turns out she didn't know what Blu-Ray was. Both HDM camps have really failed at educating consumers on their products, and really it's a CE wide thing.
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This makes me sad, but in my experience is very true. Things I have noticed from customers at my work:
They think the tuner in their HDTV makes everything HD.
There seems to be confusion over HDMI, they see that a DVD player has an HDMI out and automatically think it's an HD player.
As posted above they think Widescreen = HD.
A seemingly huge chunk of them either think all flat panel tv's are plasma or don;t know the difference between plasma and LCD. While that isn't much of an issue, it shows lack of understanding by consumers. This is why I feel HDM is failing. I made a comment to the lady that stocks our dvd section about how I thought it was funny that on the cases of the Blu-Ray discs they have a label stating that you need a PS3 or a Blu-Ray player to play them, turns out she didn't know what Blu-Ray was. Both HDM camps have really failed at educating consumers on their products, and really it's a CE wide thing.