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Posted by RickH on August 20, 2007, 10:34 am
On Aug 20, 7:50 am, james12...@none.com wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:28:56 -0400, "Freckles"
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> >>I heard that in another year or so we will all be forced to either buy
> >> a HDTV or buy a converter. Having all standard tv sets, and I am
> >> neither able to afford a HDTV, nor am I impressed by their picture, I
> >> am not at all happy about this. I live in the country where the only
> >> means to get tv channels is to either spend half my paycheck on
> >> satellite, or use an antenna on the roof. I chose the antenna, and
> >> most of the time I get fairly good reception on a few local channels.
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> >> I suppose I will have no choice but to buy a convertor, but I surely
> >> will make a big fuss about it with whatever governmental agency is
> >> behind this conspiracy to promote the sales of HDTVs and the crappy
> >> broken up and spotty pictures they produce. I sure hope that the
> >> convertor will produce a better picture on a standard tv than that on
> >> the actual hdtvs.
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> >> Anyhow, my question is whether I will also have to buy a new rooftop
> >> antenna. My present antenna broke during a windstorm and I
> >> temporarily fixed it with some tubing and ducttape. I was planning to
> >> buy a new antenna when a friend told me that he thinks I will need a
> >> HDTV antenna too, but was not sure if an old antenna would also work.
> >> Does anyone know? Will I be able to use the same rotor or does that
> >> need to be changed too?
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> >> If anyone knows what government agency to file a complaint about this
> >> HDTV conspiracy, please let me know. Tv channels have been the same
> >> since the beginning of television, and now we got these republican
> >> morons forcing us to change just so the HDTV companies can rob people
> >> charging them ten or more times the price of a regular tv and giving
> >> them a lousy picture. Just the same story as always these days, pay
> >> more, and get less..... I wonder how much money the republicans are
> >> getting to shove this HDTV shit on us?
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> >> James
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> >Unless the program you are viewing on a HDTV is broadcast in HD, your
> >picture will not be very good. If fact it probably wont be as good as the
> >ones you receive on a regular TV set. However, if it is a HD program the
> >picture will be extremely clear and beautiful when viewed on A HDTV, if not
> >something is very wrong.
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> They have a big screen HDTV at a local fast food restaurant. It's
> always tuned to CNN News. (I guess that helps a person digest their
> food). Anyhow, I cant get CNN news on my antenna, so I assume the
> restaurant is connected to cable tv. Wouldn't cable tv be sending in
> HDTV format? All I know is that the picture seems to have sparklers
> as I'd descibe them. Sort of like the 4th of july sparklers. Small
> flashes of light that are very irritating. Another thing, the faces
> are off color, appearing to have like shades of blue and green for
> shadows. The faces look real fake, more like a drawn cartoon than an
> actual person. The most annoying thing is that the picture often
> seems to get stuck for a second or so, kind of like watching a
> streaming video on the computer (using a 56k modem) and the video is
> not downloading fast enough. I sometimes get a little "snow" on my
> standard tv, but I can live with that much better than flashes of
> light, fake looking people, and picture delays.
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> I also saw a demo HDTV at a department store that had the picture in
> blocks. It looked like someone took a 200X200 pixel photo on a
> computer and blew it up to 1200X1200. It was all large blocks of of
> broken up picture that seemed like it could not keep up with the speed
> of the change in the pciture. My guess would be that this set was
> defective, but not the one at the restaurrant. How the store expects
> to sell hdtvs using that POS for a demo is beyond me.- Hide quoted text -
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Yes the people on wide screen tv's "lose their necks" and look
deformed and abnormal. It's just something we have to live with I
guess. I have not seen the sparlky problem, but I cant stand watching
tv at anybodys house who has a widescreen because the people frankly
look like "midgets" (if you know what I mean, not to be derrogatory to
midgets). My area is the last in the country where any of the local
stations are broadcasting HD, so I'll wait and just use my 2 free
government-provided converter boxes.
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