I don't know what the level of HDTV penetration is but I do know it's just about impossible to buy an analog TV, at least a new one, due to the digital changeover next year. I needed a no-frills TV to use for the class I will be taking from home starting next month and figured I would just run out to Best Buy or Wal-Mart and pick one up. Whoops, guess again. All they sell is HDTV.

>The older tvs are now relegated to the guest bedroom... Most households have at least 1 HDTV, some multiple. Of course, you can't buy a tv that isn't LCD, Plasma, HDTV these days unless it's a very small tv. There are households with no HDTV I'm sure, maybe lots and lots of them. However, the newer tvs are pretty common now.
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>>More like high school drop-ins nowadays then?
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>>What you've nearly ALL got HDTVs now? It's only just starting to take off in the UK, with the channels only just starting to show HD progs, and then not all afaik.
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>>>I think one of the biggest problems here in the U.S. these days is daytime break-ins in suburban neighborhoods. High school kids are breaking into homes during lunchtime and stealing anything they can grab to make money and then returning to school. Just about every house has an HDTV (light and easy to grab), ipods, xboxes, etc. They will even break into homes with alarms because they can get in and out so fast.
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>>>>I'm beginning to think you're a little paranoid, CL. :-) I think back to your not wanting to give away your lat/long on Google Earth, and other stuff you've mentioned. OTOH, maybe it's a tougher neighbourhood than that to which I'm accustomed.
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>>>>>As I was reading John's thread about Big Brother, I thought I would mention the security system I installed a few months ago.
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>>>>>http://www.wilife.com/Default.aspx
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>>>>>It works great. We have two cameras setup at the moment and I will probably add another soon. Each camera runs around $250 and the software is solid. It uses the wiring already existing in your home/business to communicate with the PC. All you do is plug a camera into an outlet, plug the receiver into another outlet and then into a USB port and the software detects everything and you are ready to go. It will record anytime there is movement, and you can setup areas on the video to eliminate things like leaves moving in the wind from causing it to record. Just make sure you have a decent box to run it from. I made the mistake of trying to run it on less than a GB of memory. It had a hard time with that. Now I bought a new PC dedicated to it with 3GB ram and it works awesome.
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>>>>>They have outdoor, indoor and hidden cameras also.
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>>>>>I wouldn't buy from them, or from the big retailers. Can't recall where I got mine from, but I used NextTag to find it online and made sure there was a return policy. There are some older houses with multiple junction boxes or old wiring that it might not work as well.
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>>>>>Just thought I would share.