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| tmuir |
New and Improved, yeh rightToday I went out and bought a new 26 inch LCD HD TV.I also bought the shops most expensive active internal antenna for digital TV. For a start my new TV with the new expensive antenna can't tune in channel 9 or 10. When I change the antenna back to my 7 year old passive antenna I can get channel 9. My $69 4 year old set top box with my 7 year old antenna can pick up every channel. Not to mention this new TV takes 5 to 10 seconds to change channels. On Monday the antenna goes back and if I can get all channels with the new antenna the TV goes back too. Not happy. |
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| James |
All you need for entertainment is a bit of wood, a gramafone and some chine! No fancy tellies! | ||
| andysleigh |
Re: New and Improved, yeh right
 that sucks.
they cant make anything properly these days, its all about cheap crappy manufacturing, breaks easily and soon, then buy a new one, its all about money, greedy people. all they care about is them selfs and money |
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| tmuir |
Yes thats what I like about old steam engines.
It may be 60 years old but remove the calcification that is sticking the levers, fit some new washers and maybe a spring, give it a bit of oil and its set for another 60 years. I'll be surprised if I'm still using this TV in 5 years time. This TV is for the kids games room the TV in the living rooms is 15 years old and still going strong, it just that its only a 12 or 13 inch set, and its a UK TV so to watch anything in OZ it needs a set top box. |
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| andysleigh |
we had a tv that lasted about 2 years, the colour went all green and weird.
i am quite anoyed at the uk switching to digital soon, the tv i have in my room is at least over 10 years old, and still going very well, but i shall have to junk it soon, and somehow pay for a new rubbish, tiny, expensive tv. unless you can link a digi box to a round ariel hole, then its going to have to go. |
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| tmuir |
Yes you can do it. You can buy a little box that takes audio and video in and puts it out on a TV channel so connect a set top box to TVs with no audio or video in ports. http://www.nexxia.co.uk/Hi-Fi_Accessories/rf_modulators.htm |
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| andysleigh |
thanks for that. | ||
| johnreid |
THey are just now converting to digital in the US, I finally got a converter box that enables me to use my existing set. There is a program in the US where you can get a $40 coupon towards the purchase of said converter box and before coupon mine was $48 so it was a big savings.
I did have to put up an outside antenna, but sound one for a real low price. There are probably 10 times more channels that I can receive now and the box has both an F connector and Composite RCA jacks so I am feeding two sets withe one box. I have to fit a rotator to the antenna and I think I will triple the number of stations that I can get. The audio is fantastic, but the video has frequent artifacts. Being digital, they will be able to switch over to subscription only service in a few years, much money will be made off of that by a select few. |
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| rangerssteamtoys |
They dont make anything like they used to. Now you have to take perfect care of it to last just a little while, I bought a r/c helicopter a few years back. By the time I learned to fly it right, the tail rotor broke. | ||
| andysleigh |
same happened to me, except my tail rotor broke the same day as i got it |
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| alan2525 |
A few more years back if you wanted an R/C helicopter you had to build it yourself! Out of bits you could find in the road and lollypop sticks...
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| Wallace |
Re: New and Improved, yeh right
Sorry to hear it Tony, but what has just happened to you is quite a common problem from what I've heard around here. They say the set top boxes if you buy a good quality one is far better than a TV with a built in Tuner. We haven't bothered to get the set top box yet. But I have prepared fro the future in another way. I have 1 brand new "normal" TV packed away for when one of our others go. Doing this was suggested by a friend of mine who repairs TV's as he said the old type are still far better. |
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| tmuir |
Funny thing is my set top box was the cheapest one on the market 4 years agi and it still picks up more channels than my expensive tv. | ||
| johnreid |
I know that several of the Digital Converter boxes on the market here can be rather expensive. The receiver in the cheap one I bought is really good, it is just like when one buys an expensive audio system and the radio receiver is very sensitive at all. I guess they deliver the least for the most. |