Re: Homes in foreclosure and yet, HDTV?

msg wrote:
D Peter Maus wrote:

Smokey wrote:

It will be interesting to hear the wailing from the TV broadcast industry
and its advertisers after a huge audience is eliminated by forcing the
insane HDTV nonsense down our throats in 2009.

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If you're receiving your TV over the air, converter boxes are available, with federal subsidies, and coupons for as little as $40.

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It's going to be, largely, a non-issue.

I sympathize with the O.P.; say goodbye to reliable reception while in
motion; say goodbye to _any_ reception in poor multipath areas; say goodbye
to portable reception without using an insanely power-hungry approach
(and so far no mfg. is addressing this market -- what with smartphones,
etc. it isn't attractive)


I get 40 ATSC channels, here in Lake County, where channel 2 has been a no-go for decades. Solid and stable, with no change in antenna.

As for mobile...I don't watch TV while driving.

And ATSC portables have been out for about 2 months, now. Tiger had one in stock last month in Naperville, and I saw one recently on the J&R site.




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