OK, let's review the bidding.
Analog TV. Gone. Check.
Everybody bought their subsidized set-top digital TV converters or switched to digital cable/satellite. Check.
People are buying HDTVs at an increasing rate because they're getting less expensive. Check.
OMG WTF?
Dudes. Seriously. If my existing TVs aren't upwardly-compatible with 3D, then all your special 3D equipment and 3D programming is not going to be invited into my home.
And I really doubt that I'm alone in this. We still don't have Blu-Ray because, damn it, Blu-Ray is too damn expensive and DVDs are just fine. We just bought our first LCD HDTV because, again, till this Christmas they were too damn expensive -- and then only because our Large Main Analog TV died. And we didn't buy some monster home theatre 60" POS, it's just a 42-incher.
Plus...you still have to wear 3D glasses? Get real. I won't even consider 3D until it works without glasses.
Finally: In Obama's America, do you actually think anyone is going to have the money to pay for all this shit? I rest my case.
I thought all those big-screen TVs were bad for the environment.
The plasma ones were outlawed in California because they suck too much power. I don't know if they outlawed the LCD ones or not. And I think the outlawed ones were only those above a certain size.
But yeah, all TVs around here are coal-powered, ya know.