You have a choice, you can keep watching your VHS tapes as long as they last. Nobody is forcing you to watch anything. Hell I still have a Beta player and a bunch of Beta tapes that I watch. When I bought the CD player it was my choice, nobody forced me to buy it. I may someday buy the BlueRay or not, again my choice. As for the change over to digital TV, again it is my choice to either watch TV or not and if I choose to watch, I got my converters for free.
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No, I don't have a choice if I want to watch a new movie...since new movies do not come in the VHS format. When DVD's first came out, both options were available, so I did have a choice. Obviously, nobody forced you to use common sense when replying either.
Thanks for the tip. I have 2 RCA models that I use, and 1 still in the box for future use. I hope they last my lifetime. I'm old, so they should. LOL
"SteveB" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.infowest.com:
very small words... he's not exactly literate. he was having a hard time reading that first grade book on 9/11. but seriously, what do ex-presidents put in their libraries? lee
Must be nice to be rich. My cheap-as-possible dish subscription runs about 40-something per month. I might have a restaurant tab that high maybe once a year.
Yeah, I know, I know. Dish was already up there when I bought the place, and I was doing ten things at once moving in, and didn't have the presence of mind to think about it at the time, to lean on the installer to put it elsewhere. I also didn't have an extension ladder yet, to take it down and make the guy run fresh cable, which I also should have done. If I was starting from scratch, I'd put it at other end of roof, or even visible from road on the front of the house down low. Much clearer shot there. It only goes flakey in high wind or heavy rain, mainly when leaves are on the trees. Higher really isn't an option- these are mature trees we are talking about, and it would take a REAL tower to get above them. Still trying to figure where to put a replacement OTA backup antenna, that won't be locked in a death match with my apple tree that was planted way too close to the addition, or the addition was placed way too close to. (not sure which came first...)
You hit the nail right on the head with what you said. The govt will make a killing selling these frequencies to cell phone companies. so those companies can continue to pollute our youth with their toy cellphones. If cellphones were only used for business and personal emergencies, like they were intended, we would nto need more frequencies.
I dont buy the "Progress" concept at all. In a fringe rural area, I can get analog signals that may be a bit snowy at times, but I can still watch them. With digital tv, it's ALL or NOTHING. I can NOT watch a program when the screen goes blank every few minutes. As far as picture quality, their ads say how much better it is. To that I say BULLSHIT. At least not on a standard tv with converter. But then, I have always been satisfied with a regular tv picture. I am not trying to get a home theater, I just watch tv. About the only real improvement in many years was stereo sound.
Like you said, Wide screen is just another useless "innovation". I personally could care less. And for those who think HDTV is better, I disagree. I have looked at many of the HDTV sets on the stores, from the low end cheap ones to the most expensive. For some reason I always end up watching the cheapest ones referred to as SDTVs. The ones with the CRT. For some reason those LCD screens give me a headache, (literally), and I do not care for the picture. It looks fake. Closeups of faces look like they are made out of plastic. Nature scenes look a little better, but I still much prefer the CRT sets.
But like everything, these companies will continue to brainwash consumers, particularly the youth who have been programmed to NEVER be satisfied with any consumer product, and always want more. I'm elderly, I have been watching analog tv on a CRT for many years. There have been great improvements since the 1950s, and the tv sets made since the 1990s have been superior. Now we can all go back to the 50's where we have poor reception. Poor reception, but in wide screen HDTV color...... Whoopie. I AM NOT IMPRESSED !!!!
Yes, you have a choice...don't waste your time watching the damn movie. If you don't chose to use common sense and not watch it, don't bitch about it. You always have a choice, you just don't like the available choices and find it easier to bitch about it than make your silly choice and shut up.
If this was 5-10 acres in the boonies where I planned to stay for 10-20 years, such projects would have a appeal. But this is an entry-level ranch on a 100x200 semi-rural subdivision lot, that I will need to be selling in 3-5 years, assuming I can make the retirement $ numbers work out. The place needs to look 'normal' for painless resale, and any permanent inprovements need to be within spitting distance of paying for themselves at sale time.
That leads to a point that nobody else has mentioned. When they pull the plug on the analog side, many stations will dramatically up their digital power. Broadcasting at reduced power on digital is mainly an economic move. A high power station can run a power bill just for the transmitter of $20k a month or more (that's about what Ch11/Atlanta ran when I moonlighted there in the 80s). Running high powered digital with not much audience just didn't make sense. Once the analog financial burden is gone and everyone is moved to digital, it makes sense to go full power.
A call to the stations that one is interested in will quickly elicit whether they're currently at reduced power or not.
John
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I do have two DVD VCR combos, but the regular old VCR was just fine, until they stopped releasing new movies in the VHS format. The DVD's don't wear well at all, and I can't tell you how many times I've had to return them to the video store because they're skipping, scratched etc. Once in a great while you would get a VHS that didn't sound good or something, but not often, with DVD's it's a crap shoot. I also hate that you can't FF through a lot of that crap on a DVD, and on some, you can't even FF through the previews.
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