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Posted by AZ Nomad on January 23, 2008, 8:38 pm
>AZ Nomad wrote:
>>>Just bought a cheap 20" Tube TV for our Kitchen. This unit has a digital
>>>tuner built in. We have cable . My question is since the cable box converts
>>>the digital signal to analog am I missing some picture quality? Most likely
>>>connecting the cable directly would not allow me to receive premium
>>>channels. Any one else out there solved the same problem---if there is
>>>one---. comcast has only one cable box.
>>
>>A cheap 20" tube tv won't have a digital tuner no matter how they hype it.
>>They're probably pleased that it has a digital readout.
>Sure it will, all TV's sold now are going to have a digital tuner
>because in Feb 09 the analog signal goes bye-bye.
A shitty tube TV wasn't designed looking a whole year ahead. It was slapped
together with the cheapest components available *now*.
>>Did they also call it a "flat screen"? :-)
>If the CRT is flat and not convex they can call it "flat screen"
>because it is.
They call it a "flat screen" to fool people into buying it thinking
it is a flat panel TV like an LCD screen. "Flat Screen" was never
marketing hype before flat panels were on the market.
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