this is not weird at all. i am sure there are rich people there who own lcd and plasma tv sets, but the country is the one who doesnt support HDTV broadcasting. I live in serbia, and i can tell you that it is the stupidest place to live if you like technology like HDTV. you can buy cheapest lcd televisons (sony, samsung, toshiba) here but you cant use them properly, because we dont even have digital broadcasting. very few people have XBOX 360 and playstation3 because for example XBOX 360 Arcade costs here around 700$, and PS3 is 800$ (40 GB). monthly sallary is 600$. not to mention Blu-Ray, thats like science fiction here. most of the people still dream about PS2, i say dream because they cant even buy that.
i am even sure that south africa is going to get HDTV broadcasting before serbia. we also had simmilar thing, this years eurovision song contest was in our capital city Belgrade, and it was broadcasted in HDTV via satelite. while all the people in europe watched it in HD with 5.1 sound, we were wathching in analog SD without even stereo. but nobody complained because no one has ever heard here for HDTV, and they still dont make difference between lcd and plasma. people are so stupid here that they think like this: why would i buy plasma(lcd) when all i will get is blurry picture that looks worse than on CRT tv set.
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i am sure there are rich people there who own lcd and plasma tv sets, but the country is the one who doesnt support HDTV broadcasting.
I live in serbia, and i can tell you that it is the stupidest place to live if you like technology like HDTV. you can buy cheapest lcd televisons (sony, samsung, toshiba) here but you cant use them properly, because we dont even have digital broadcasting. very few people have XBOX 360 and playstation3 because for example XBOX 360 Arcade costs here around 700$, and PS3 is 800$ (40 GB). monthly sallary is 600$. not to mention Blu-Ray, thats like science fiction here.
most of the people still dream about PS2, i say dream because they cant even buy that.
i am even sure that south africa is going to get HDTV broadcasting before serbia.
we also had simmilar thing, this years eurovision song contest was in our capital city Belgrade, and it was broadcasted in HDTV via satelite. while all the people in europe watched it in HD with 5.1 sound, we were wathching in analog SD without even stereo.
but nobody complained because no one has ever heard here for HDTV, and they still dont make difference between lcd and plasma. people are so stupid here that they think like this:
why would i buy plasma(lcd) when all i will get is blurry picture that looks worse than on CRT tv set.