Conspiracy Theory--are you safe?

Well this is particularly related to your country, but I am surprised that TV like things are mandatory. Is it really so?

My cable company ~ Cox ~ doesn't charge for HD. The conversion is free. Nor did I have to buy a converter box. I feel very fortunate because of this. Which company is charging you for HD? What a ripoff! Aren't they getting enough of our money? Purrs, Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

Actually it's not HD TV, it's digital. Digital is far more accurate by reducing the signal to a very specific wavelength. Take the old analog radios for instance. As you dialed them in you could often have 2 channels coming in at the same time making it nearly impossible to understand either. With digital that's not a problem. It allows there to be more stations transmitting in an area without the threat of those overlapping signals , has less static & a better picture. How many people actually use an antenna anyways? Satellite & cable users don't need the converter box, they're already digital.

I think the only conspiracy here... is about all the companies associated with television... to become rich by forcing everyone to buy a HD TV or a converter box. It also save money for the television channels not to have to broadcast on two different airwaves. They did the same thing with the mobile phones. We bought analog phones in the nineties... and then they forced us to buy digital phones. They do it with everything. When they invented the CD player... they stopped making vinyl records to force us to buy a CD player. When they invented the DVD player... they stopped putting movies on video to force us to buy a DVD player. Every year they make bigger computer's programs requiring more memory to force us to buy a new computer every 3 years. Every time they change the technology... 6 billion people are forced to go to the shop to buy the latest gadget. Is it any wonder that we are poor? While a few keep getting richer at our expense. Bill Gates has been sucking the money out of our pockets for 15 years by simply making his programs bigger each year.

I question everything...and I listen to the conspiracy theorists, and wait, and watch, and weigh the odds, the likelihood, the plausibility. More and more often lately, those who're called conspiracy theorists, have been right. Not about everything, but on enough. Anyway, I've heard a rumor that...in Germany, HD tv causes mysterious seizures, maybe comas? And I've been observing. I can watch HD videos online, and some of our channels are now in HD. They say the picture's better, but I haven't noticed it being much different than regular cable. It's POSSIBLE that the HD tech, the converter boxes, television, could be installed with devices that might record what we watch. That's simple enough to do, but I'm not sure that it'd have the ability to transmit, to be entirely useful. And that's the detail we'd need to know to confirm an idea like that. It's easy to plant "bugs" if that's the goal...which'd be rather despicable, but I dunno. You're not crazy to consider the notion -- question everything. I'm just not sure of the likelihood. I mean, what's to stop people from poking around and finding out if the idea's got any roots in truth? Why risk that?

I always just assumed the basis was money - like switching somehow makes the corporations more money. I don't think you're a nut job, who doesn't think the government has hidden agendas in most everything they do? Although I really don't think that spying is the agenda w/ HDTV, I'm still thinking it must be money. But I also live in Canada so what do I know!

The mandatory clause makes it look very suspicious.

I had not really ever thought about this to be honest with you. That really is a frightening thought. Now I really have to think about it. Hmmm... Have a nice day and happy myLotting!!!

i don't know about this hdtv. it is sold here locally but not much people owns that already. i am still happy with the tv we have. i don't think i need this new one. the latest we have is so great already and happy with it. even with new release of latest television our old one are not that far behind. it is still as modern as those new release. it just like they are far more advanced in some ways, but with the ones i am using now. they are still great and makes me feel that i am getting a good time watching with my latest television.

Well I agree that there is technology capable of observing from afar. It would make sense. and its plausible that such things exist. I doubt though that you'd find them in your TV. I mean why bother with that when they can have satelites that zoom in close to the ground. Chances are if I wanted to be able to observve someone without them knowing I was doing it (assuming I was a big government) I'd look for puting some top secret spy gadget in something that would most likely always be on the person. Like a cell phone. I bet that would cover the majority of the people in the USA alone. I mean who doesn't have one. But TV via a signal. I can't see that being efficient. But I can see that it may well be possible.