Comments on: What is common was once elite http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/02/27/what-is-common-was-once-elite/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/02/27/what-is-common-was-once-elite/comment-page-1/#comment-91494 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:57:37 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/02/27/what-is-common-was-once-elite/#comment-91494 Here in San Francisco and the region, a lot of my friends have large-screen HDTVs. Somebody’s buying them!

Myself, I don’t even have a conventional TV. There is _always_ something better to do than to watch TV.

— Donald

]]> By: Ashley Zinyk http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/02/27/what-is-common-was-once-elite/comment-page-1/#comment-91447 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:06:10 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/02/27/what-is-common-was-once-elite/#comment-91447 Regarding HDTV, I think it’s adoption is inevitable, but I don’t know anyone who owns one, or is even thinking about buying one. I’ve never seen an HDTV broadcast or an HDTV movie outside of Best Buy, and HDTVs still cost $2-4K. So maybe it is a good analogy for personal spaceflight: we’ll probably do it eventually, but claims that was taking off in a hurry were over-optimistic.

]]> By: Rick Boozer http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/02/27/what-is-common-was-once-elite/comment-page-1/#comment-91253 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:01:27 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/02/27/what-is-common-was-once-elite/#comment-91253 I’m reminded of articles I read 5 or so years ago that said HDTV would never become popular because few people would shell out $3500 or more for it!

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