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Originally Posted by sortie
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Because the TV makers want to sell everyone a new TV. People already had 3 to 4 TVs in their homes, so no one needed more TVs, they stopped selling, prices started to fall so they got together and said "How can we sell everyone more TVs?" and one asshole in the back said "I know, lets buy off the fucking FCC and get them to pass a law saying that by X, all new TVs must work off this new system we'll call HDTV. It will be a little bit better for the consumers, but we'll get to sell them all new TVs out of it!" and the rest is history.
Its kinda like a toilet brush. You only need a toilet brush for every toilet once. The only way to sell more toilet brushes is to somehow make the old ones incompatible with new toilets.