This seems to me to be like what the Phone Companies do now. They create problems so that you are required to pay them, again, for the solution. Like text messaging, if you don\’t want your teen to text message your money away, you can pay them to block it. They make money on both ends, and there is always a catch somewhere.

1. I own a 57 inch wide screen HDTV. The picture quality compared to say a 57 inch analog TV is like (for you poor people) going from McDonalds to eating with Donald Trump. The picture is so much better, you can see the acne on a QB’s face for Notre Dame (or place school here). You can count the blades of grass almost 30 feet away from the TV (I might be able to say farther if I had a bigger room, thats judging from the bathroom if your wondering kids).

2.If your neighbor who claims to own a HDTV is moaning about the picture quality, here’s why: 1.They accidently got a DTV (not the same as HDTV). 2.The cable provider has provided bad/old RG lines (cable lines for you old folks) that go into the house/neighborhood/box. This can affect the picture quality. 3.They do not understand that a HDTV will not improve the picture quality on a analog channel. 4.They do not have their HDTV setop box properly setup (the cable company installers fail to properly set them up because like many of you fail to understand how and what). For example, of my HDTV Digital Video Recorder setup, the installer didn’t understand that you had to go into the menu and change settings, I had to do it for him. Otherwise I’d be looking at 4:3 aspect ratio and 480p on my TV instead of 16:9/1080i.

3.People are always crying for something they are uneducated on. Best example of this is global warming. If you look at the actual history of recorded data in the world, you would know that we did have a increase in global temp every year for a long period of time, you would also know that for quite sometime that global temps have been failling. But your too busy reading YAHOO news or listening to MSNBC and not actually reading hard data to understand that 9 times out of 10. What’s the point I’m trying to make here: if your not poor don’t cry for the poor…If you don’t own a HDTV and don’t understand every little detail about it, don’t try to fool those who do or say they have no idea what they are talking about because they are “rich”. You can be wrong, and many times in life you will be wrong, just accept it (it is apart of life).

4.This so called “deadline” the federal government has listed for the push over to digital, has been pushed back for many years. Now you bleeding hearts who are crying for the poor…Should remember for a minute that former President, Bill Clinton in the year 2000 during his speech at the Democrat National Convention was shown walking down a hallway to the stage in a strange looking picture (made his head shape look like a leamon) that’s because it was in HD. I know what your saying, “That’s a lie”, or my personal favorite, “What? It looked terrible”. It was indeed, look it up because the press explained this to you the next morning. Now I’m going to explain why it didn’t look good on your TV, you did not have a HDTV nor did you have a widescreen TV, nor did you have the broadcast in a truely digital format (it was analog). Why did they do it? So the press could talk about it, explain it, thus forcing you the viewer to connect the dots and give credit to the former President for the technology gift of HDTV coming soon (sort of life how Al Gore tried to gain credit for the internet).

5.Back to that neighbor or co worker who has HD but is not impressed. Chances are they don’t understand that on a CRT (what most analog TV owners have) will never see the benefits of HDTV (even if it’s a widescreen). Why? Because it is really only impressive on other formats (honest). And really only extremely impressive on a big screen (51 inches and above). Especially on a rear projection TV (because we all hated the pictures we saw on analog rear projection, it looked dim and dark, go to your local Hooters if your wondering what it looked like, chances are they still got a old analog there still, but ask). Plus, sometimes certain things need to be done to these bigger TVs (even brand new, 14 secs ago delivered) such as a calibration that can be done by a menu or a button push. Does this mean the neighbor you know has HDTV and is disapointed by it’s picture is not smart? No. Does it mean that even though he has a degree in engineering that he should know? No. Why? Because this is all new stuff and sometimes extensive homework and training is needed for people who are not certain technology friendly (maybe great with VCR’s and computers, but crud when it comes to the HDTV).

6.If your worried about the “poor” and the “middle class”, being able to afford this…Mark Cuban is right, prices are indeed falling and will continue to fall. Infact, even those “sexy” and “cool” thin panel LCDs have companies right now working on a TV that will cost you a hundred bucks (think I’m lying, go do your homework and then talk). Guess what else? Take that HDTV box from your cable company, get some HDTV channels, hook it up to your analog TV. Guess what happens? You get a picture. Is it a better picture? Can ya tell a difference? No. It looks the same as a digital channel you’ve seen on Dish Network, DirecTV, and so on. How do I know? I’ve done it.

7.Instead of insulting Mark Cuban, maybe you should try to make it in this world yourself. Spewing your jealousy out (and you are) by writing on his dot com capitialization shows your jealous. You may not think you are, but the end you are very much with comments like those. Grow up, get your head straight and start throwing your money in the market since your so smart…Since Mark Cuban and I, are so dumb in your eyes, and we don’t understand the “poor” and “middle class”. We understand them quite well, it’s you who want to make yourselves sit on a high horse and have people listen to you when you obviously don’t understand economics (supply and demand) and technology.

In the end, Mr.Cuban, I love HDNet (keep those reruns of Andy Richter coming, that show was a classic regardless of ratings). Thanks for answering and responding to my email on movie suggestions for HDNet Movies (I saw you added one of the movies I requested fairly quickly afterwards). Goodluck with all your future endevors. I apologize if the views/comments I’ve expressed have embarrased you, but someone needed to say the truth.

For the rest of ya, wake up! Stop listening to Michael Moore and retards who don’t do their home work…Go do your own home work and come up with your own views…You’ll be far richer and far smarter than the rest. That’s when ya can get on the high horse and laugh at the sheep.

What and who can justify a specifice date keeping in mind just how many people receive analog and cannot or will not change to digital for whatever reasons?

I fully understand that the Federal Communications Commission has the right to control such issues, but with all of advanced technological changes that have occurred and keeping in accordance with the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, how can this actually occur without hurting those that the Telecommunications Act covers?

I think HDTV was ill conceived from a consumer standpoint. I really hope it fails.

Thanks In Advance, Susan