want!!

yes please!

Wow ... please please please please please please

We replaced a perfectly good 5.1 system late last year with a YAS-71 soundbar (subwoofer hiding behind a curtain in the bay window) and haven't looked back. On rare occasions, I do miss surround, but my wife and I much prefer the more grown-up look to the living room where speakers aren't oddly placed. If I should ever redo the basement into a true theater, which might happen, it would get top-of-the-line sound treatment. For the living room, a decent sounding soundbar is more than adequate for us. Gave it all to my dad, and within a week my mother was calling me to complain about the "crap" all over their living room! lol. (This week's Star Trek Blu-Ray will be one of those times when I miss surround sound).

Joy. Even less bandwidth for the main HD channel. I'm probably the only person on the planet that thinks this is the dumbest thing we've ever done, but I do. ATSC users, your picture just got that much worse. Wait a couple more years and it will be as bad as cable.

Home Theater should be upgraded as soon as it's viable to do so, and then only to the point where you're happy. The tech moves so rediculously fast, there's really no reason to wait for $50 off because it happens to be Black Friday :) Enjoy it now! Tomorrow something better will come out anyway!

Just force cable companies to provide free local TV services and take the rest of VHF and UHF back. It's not like we needed 700Mhz for DTV, since VHF has been perfect ... oh wait.

Everything we have available to us now has it's place, and they all have some level of trade-off involved. Blu-Ray, IMO has the least amount of trade-offs, especially when you compare it to streaming video. At my house, we buy 'blockbusters' and movies we feel would benefit from 1080p/7.1 on Blu-Ray. We buy movies that we can appreciate watching more than once without 1080p on DVD. Everything else we stream. Amazon's 720p HD streaming look phenominal through a Roku box on a 40" Bravia. My 3Mb/s DSL can handle it without a single hiccup, too. Things like new TV shows and movies we wouldn't watch more than once come from Amazon. We use Netflix for the "wow, we're bored ... let's see what's on Netflix", being the lowest quality format, again IMO.

Basically, I just don't see why people have any reason to complain. They have a number of choices right now to satisfy their video entertainment needs. Think back ... well, basically a couple years ago. You had DVD and 480i TV to choose from. Better?

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