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To: blueyon

Ok this is going to sound silly but we are thinking of maybe or not getting a new TV. We both really do not care if we do our not so time and price are on our side....anyway if you really want to learn about the “problems” a TV can have type in a google search
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After 25 years without one, this is going to be the family treat and our time at the movies.


48 posted on 12/02/2011 5:11:07 PM PST by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: Chickensoup
Go to Best Buy and check out their smallest screen HDTVs. This will probably be a 19 inch, altho I bought one of their 15 inch sets that I use as a kitchen TV and it's perfectly adequate, it does not seem small or deficient for viewing. You don't need a huge monster set taking up half your livingroom. You want a size you can live with after the football game is over.

My experience: If you plug it in the wall without an antenna, you get one channel. If you buy a rabbit ears indoor antenna, you get three channels. If you buy an $85 indoor antenna that looks like a laptop, and esp. if you stick it in your window, esp. if that window faces out onto an open expanse of ground, then you can pull in nineteen channels, many of them retro. You'll have more fun with the retro and 'smaller' networks like CW which runs your local news station's 11 PM news at 10 o'clock then has sports talk from 1030 to 11.

When you discover programming like that for free, you may find that you like watching TV all year round. You don't need cable at all.

75 posted on 12/02/2011 5:58:50 PM PST by Ciexyz
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