"MiNe 109" wrote


Yes, those prices are dropping. That success would be unimaginable
without the widespread availability of hi-def tv displays.


Absolutely. You could almost go further and say HD *will* succeed because
it's fast becoming the case that there's no available alternative!

The market for standard definition analog tvs in the US has evaporated.


I understand that it is simply not possible to buy an SD TV in the UK these
days??


Various reading and browsing leads me to believe that even firms like
Sony
struggled to convince the 'high end boys' that their 'audiophile' ranges
are/were up to the standards of overpriced 'boutique audio' from UK (and
now
Chinese) *cottage industry* manufacturers and that ground-breaking,
industry-leading firms with humble origins like Lucky Goldstar can suffer
from a lingering (but rapidly diminishing) association with their
earlier,
cheap and (in some cases) fairly nasty products!!

Huh? Sony has always had respected high-end digital products.


Not so much in the UK, I think.



LG doesn't
have high-end audio that I know of, while their tvs are everywhere.


Yes - LG and Samsung are a mighty force in the 'AV' world!