HDTV Televisions have become such a standard entertainment venue in modern life that some people see the television as a mandatory appliance. As technology advances are made with flat panel LCD plasma screens, the impending implementation of HDTV, getting the latest version of HDTV televisions is considered necessary.

I know a person that lost their home for failure to make the mortgage payments. She now lives in a government subsidized apartment. The first thing she did when she moved in was purchase an expensive digital cable subscription. She told me she had to watch her old television shows and having digital cable became a necessity. When you have expensive home entertainment equipment, it is expected that you have to also have hundreds of channels of high definition digital cable programming to complement it.

When I suggested that maybe she should be satisfied with her DVD collection and the two or three channels of free local television programming, she was outraged that I would say such a thing. Just because she was one social program away from homelessness did not mean she should do without animated television series that was of the highest quality.

All in all, since television became an American staple barely fifty years ago, it has become so influential that people would risk their rent money to watch it.