2006 — the Year High Definition Did not Happen
Richard Skilos writes in The New York Times about trends — such as High Definition Television — that did NOT take hold during 2006.
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Sure, this was the first year when sales of digital TVs were supposed to outstrip sales of analog sets. But it turns out that there is a big difference between owning a high-definition flat-panel display and using it to watch high-definition programs.
According to a recent survey by Frank N. Magid Associates, the number of people buying these sets who are looking forward to watching television shows in hi-def format has actually declined, to 47 percent from 63 percent two years ago. And while nearly half of current owners of HDTV sets said that their main reason for buying one was to watch programs in HD, only 25 percent of those now shopping for the sets feel that way.