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.
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.
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?
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?
James