I've had my HDTV since 2002, and I definitely pick substance over style now (although when I can find both, that's the best). I think this fascination with pretty pictures will die down as HDTV becomes more commonplace. I'm young enough that I missed the color TV transition, but my dad says that there were a plethora of these same types of programs during that period as well. I'll bet we could find quotes almost like AbbadonTD's from the '60s:
"Most of my customers are just like this, will watch ANYTHING in color. You could broadcast a color channel of a flower field and people would watch it."
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I've had my HDTV since 2002, and I definitely pick substance over style now (although when I can find both, that's the best). I think this fascination with pretty pictures will die down as HDTV becomes more commonplace. I'm young enough that I missed the color TV transition, but my dad says that there were a plethora of these same types of programs during that period as well. I'll bet we could find quotes almost like AbbadonTD's from the '60s:
"Most of my customers are just like this, will watch ANYTHING in color. You could broadcast a color channel of a flower field and people would watch it."