|
Posted by mm on February 5, 2008, 2:00 am
wrote:
>AZ Nomad wrote:
>
>>>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*.
>
>Don't take my word for it. Go down to your nearest WalMart, Best Buy,
>any place that sells TV's and have a look.
By chance I was at Target on Reisterstown Road just inside the
Baltimore Beltway (there are two on that street) just two days ago,
and looked at tv's. They had what they called a kitchen tv for 185
dollars iirc, about 8" screen. It was digital. Then I noticed a tv
for even less, 145 maybe, with a much bigger screen. But there was a
catch.
>They all have digital
>tuners. In fact the FCC mandated that all TV's sold after March 1,
>2007 have a digital tuner.
I don't know about the FCC but I was at Target two days ago, and they
had at least two models that were not digital. The shelf-edge
price sign for each had a paragraph on the right that was at least 40
words long that said that the tv would only work with cable and
satellite after that date early next year.
>http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/02/26/fcc_rule_requires_all_new_tvs_to_be_digital/
>
Well, that's what Hiawatha says all right, but either he was wrong or
something has changed or Target is ignoring the law. I doubt it is
the third one because they went to a lot of trouble to print those
signs, which were very nicely done, and they could have just not
accepted those tv's in the first place.
| 
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap