According to HDTVProfessor:
Market research firm NPD has stated (according to a report by TWICE) that about 46 percent of USA television households now have HDTVs. 34 percent have only one HDTV, and 13 percent have two or more. So depending on how you look at it, the HDTV glass for US viewers is either half empty or half full.
We’ve had free digital broadcasts of HDTV as well as HD content on cable and satellite for several years now. As repeatedly mentioned here, the amount of available HD programming is growing rapidly (though some might say that some of it is not worth watching). And yet, less than half of the households have even one HDTV.
Note also that the NPD figures cited do not apparently report how many of those installed HDTVs have a high definition signal source. As of about a year ago, about half of them didn’t. And half of those with HDTVs but without high definition signals back then reported that they thought that they were watching HD.
The idea of getting a top shelf television and watching the same analog signal instead of watching everything in HD hurts us deeply. Use an antenna, get satellite, but not taking that step ruins the reason why people get HDTVs to begin with.
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