Sony and other DTV set makers can’t be held accountable for delay...
Sony and other DTV set makers can’t be held accountable for delays in DTV transition unless cable industry “starts working on the compatibility issue,” Sony Electronics CEO Fujio Nishida told reporters Tues. He said set makers could bring DTV…
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products to market in greater quantities and at lower, more mainstream prices, “but it’s not the product, it’s cable,” that’s key to rapid deployment of DTV service in U.S. Responding to question whether lack of DTV cable delivery might ultimately start to hamper sales of DTV-ready sets, Nishida said he didn’t believe there was that threat because “people anticipate it’s coming in the future. It’s a future investment. But still, it’s bad.” He said he wished consumers who bought Sony big-screen DTV set had access to true HDTV picture quality 24 hours daily. Nishida said true HDTV picture quality on typical 60” projection TV was sight to behold, but with “ordinary NTSC, the picture quality is so bad.” He said “we're spoiled already” by what HDTV could bring to big-screen TV.