I won't buy anymore 'stuff' that demands a seperate remote. I agree with the guy who mentioned that his camera has 15 buttons. I have the same complaint. Tiny little buttons that open up a mass of seperate 'menus' that extends the complexity to the point of 'I'll leave it at home' rather than fiddle with the mass of tiny buttons and menus. Phones are the same. A tiny screen and ten thousand 'menus' that just complicates the most simple task. Nowadays I look at the simplicity of operation rather than a bunch of 'gismos' with additional complexity.

I have so many REMOTEs now -- I had to buy a Bloodhound to keep track ..... 80 years ago we had a radio - it had two (2) knobs - on/off/volume and Tune for Station.... I gotta a camera the other day with more than 15 funtion-buttons! Progress ain't my cup-a-tea ! !

Cable, satellite, LCD HD etc. Tvs are all duds now. Why ? Because I just invented a new system that works through your computer. Bill Gates predicted it, and I perfected it. You will need broadband net access to use it. And it's simple a database of everything, every show, every movie, documentary, all of it. You simply click on what you want to see. Watch it when you want, as many times as you want. One low cost. No gas cost to the video store. No lost mailed DVds....Alfred-

3-D tv's are not going to stay. Just like the HD dvd it will be gone soon.

I assume when they make reference to a glut of LCD TV's, they mean all HD TV's. I've never understood why LCD or LED TV's have become the standard by which HD TV's are measured when plasma is so superior a format. I'd guess the initial 'burn in' concerns with plasma sets were a big part of that but from contrast ratio to refresh rate, plasma wins.

The 3-d glasses are great, you can fall asleep watching the crap and no one knows...

How would increased sales help us anyway?NONE of this JUNK is made here anyway...Save your old tvs for as long as possible and then buy used until someone starts making something in AMERICA! Stop supporting foreign govts. who hate us anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALICE, it is "obsolescense" not "obsolence".

Ref all comments concerning new technology: While we need current technology in some areas of our lives (e.g. security, health), we do not need it for entertainment and other aspects of our lives. Corporations use commercial advertising to brainwash us into thinking we need all the newest "stuff." The American policy of a quality, long lasting produce was replaced by corporate "planned obsolence" policy. Planned obsolence means short life time product that will require replacement in a short time period. The cycle of planned obsolence insures continuing sales to replace items which results in consumers spending money. I believe when Toyota and other foreign corporations adopted the old American policy of quality products, and American companies adopted the "planned obsolence" policy, Americans started buying foreign made products and American made products almost disappeared. Now, foreign corporations have adopted the "planned obsolence" policy and producing low quality, inferior products (i.e. Toyota's recent recalls). But is it too late since all the American made, quality products are gone? I hope not.

DBATT911....You must either be related to Dick Cheney or you work for Halliburton. The change to digital television was all about the $$$$....Funny you used 911 in your screen name too....911 wasn't perpetrated by foreign terrorists....it was all about the $$$$ too....