Saturday, December 10th, 2005, 6:51 pm
The User’s Choice for Feature Deprivation
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Opting for ‘old school’ TV, even on a modern set
HILE many of us are afraid of change, some of us refuse to accept change. At some of the worst scenarios, without any awareness, we can miss out on tremendous benefits. Examples from the hardware domain:
- Half of all HDTV owners never use the high definition capabilities of their set.
- Many people still use a single-head display even though they have dual-head graphics card and some old monitor(s) lying around in the house. It is poor use of the available hardware, which few people seem to mind.
As for more examples pertaining to software:
- People browse with Firefox/Opera/Mozilla/Netscape and make no use of tabs.
- Use of heavy and sluggish, Web-based E-mail services, notably MSN/Hotmail. Some vendors/hosts make the exception nonetheless.
