Posted on 12/13/2013 12:41:08 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
My wife and I bought this after selling our daughter Amanda into white slavery. We actually got a refurbished. It's missing the remote, but oh well-- for $10K off, I can afford a universal, right? The picture is amazing. I've never seen the world with such clarity.
Amanda, if you're reading this, hang in there, honey! We'll see you in a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at amazon.com ...
IIRC that's what Patrick Norton and Robert Heron said on HD Nation/Tekzilla just a week or so ago.
Since 1997 the US has had "new" broadcast TVs that can pick up the new HD broadcast standard: ATSC. It ran side-by-side with good old NTSC until 2009, and since then, it is the only TV standard broadcast over US airwaves.
It still uses the same VHF and UHF antennas as the old days, however reception range is lessened compared to analog.
Since I dumped cable TV (even for just locals), ATSC is what I use: I have rabbit ears feeding my 46" HDTV. I get everything but NBC… surprise surprise, guess what company is owned by Comcast, and thus doesn't care to do over-the-air broadcasting well?
TV set makers want to transition us to a non-backwards compatible ATSC 3.0 system starting a few years from now, but they'll get tremendous blowback. Most Americans only transitioned to HDTVs in 2008 or 2009.
I thought this was a review by George Takai. He does wicked reviews on amazon. One of them, a toy for his cat, had me laughing so hard I almost peed myself.
You pretty much lost me with the new technology. I do not know how that works in rural areas.
My business was radio electronics, but as a side line I sold the old 12 foot dishes that picked up C band sat transmissions. OK, that was 30+ years ago. I am now happy with my G-sat Ku band system.
If she’s gorgeous and mute I will consider taking her for $500.
Quick answers to: "Does the US still have old broadcast TVs?"
Yes. But ones made before 1999 or so will need an inexpensive converter box, since the picture format has changed from analog to digital.
(Hopefully that's a lot clearer.)
The thought of a 4’ tall pug should terrify us all.
Beats me - haven’t watched for the better part of 15 years.
Got a link, please?
LOL! Most of the other reviews, plus the question/answer portion of the Amazon page, is pretty hysterical.
Thanks, this is great!
“Yes. But ones made before 1999 or so will need an inexpensive converter box, since the picture format has changed from analog to digital.”
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OK, that explains it...Thanks. Happy not to be back in the USSA ;)
Glad y’all liked.
WRT the story you posted, why wasn’t Piers “Morgan” Moron charged? He was editor at News Of The World when the phone hacking scandal broke.
Oh dang, you gotta read that poster’s reviews!
I had to set aside my coffee before I drowned the keyboard.
I’ve had a Samsung plasma for three years - not one problem.
TV ping
We are still using my grandmother's TV. She passed away in 1994, and the TV was a few years old then, so I think it is over 25 years old. It works fine. I see no reason to get another. I do not actually know how well it receives broadcast; here in the mountains, I doubt there is much signal anyway.
The glass panels being developed and sold probably won’t pose the same problems, because they are much stronger than they used to be.
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