Originally Posted by MikeRox

I hope you're right, but the state of our economy (the strong £ against the $ is really having a serious impact now) combined with the US crisis as a lot of money has gone from our economy into US banks to keep their funding up for loans etc. which has in turn led to there not being enough money on the market for some of our banks to use to fund existing loans they have. (Read about Northern Rock and now Alliance and Leicester in UK news for more info on this).

Interest rates have also gone up again, and we're approaching the first winter since Gas and Electric rates rose by 80% so mortgage repayments and the like have shot up in price. HDTVs are one of the first markets that are going to be hit by this. Unless they get the PS3 RRP down pronto I think that is also going to suffer a poor xmas run over here.

As for our Broadband, much smaller country, a lot easier to sort out it's in a poor state bandwidth-wise but the optical upgrades over the next 5 years should sort most of that out.