The Waiting Game

The bane of every technophile in existence…. waiting for new features… after all.. they are just around the corner! The author of Home Theater Blog, an AVS installer, tells the story of a client who suffers the exact same problem. I know I am coming across the same problem when deciding what to build for my new HTPC (details to come).

Home Theater Blog

The purchase or lack thereof is of course entirely up to the end user and as a friend of mine humorously noted: If you can't live in it, wear it, or eat it, it's not a necessity. At the same time however it's a shame to imagine someone waiting for x-y-z feature at 1-2-3 arbitrary price point when they could have otherwise been enjoying that piece of gear for years to come. I'm not trying to lecture on any one individual purchase or otherwise valid reason to hold off, but I do occasionally see consumers locked into the "must wait" mindset for no other apparent reason than worrying about what the future may bring.