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Any advice by Rob Enderle is likely to be wrong. Just google enderle and jackass and you can see the many stories about him.

There are several reasons to wait.

If you are using cable as many in the U.S. do there will be OCAP (or true2way as CableLabs calls it now) that allow to get rid of that cable box dangling off your sleek (maybe wall mounted) HDTV. Yes, there might be a premium to pay, especially the first couple of month, but that will level out especially on higher end TVs.

120Hz technology will be commonplace in better models. This really helps on action movies or video games.

These two things will happen in the short term 1-2 years.

If you can wait longer (and you won't see static on your old TV if you get some of those NTIA sponsored converter boxes) new technologies like the one mentioned in the article, OLED, and maybe something similar to SED that Canon unfortunately screwed up patent wise, will mature. Thought his would be at least a 3-4 years timeframe, but why produce more electronics waste than necessary?

A better option is to just not watch TV, the quality of today's TV programming
is so low, I'd rather do other things.

Buy now because prices MAY go up? or because there MAY be a shortage? Those are very weak reasons. I can't think of an example where the price of high-tech electronics hasn't gone down for those who wait; or there has been a shortage.