Posted on 02/26/2012 2:33:37 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave
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Over-the-Air TV Catches Second Wind, Aided by Web
It’s cool to have rabbit ears again.
Largely relegated to obscurity decades ago, old-fashioned television broadcastsover the airwaves and not via cable or satelliteare enjoying an unexpected revival in the digital era.
With an increased array of online-video programming now drawing viewers’ attention, companies are starting to pitch consumers on complementing online video streamed from the Web with broadcast-TV signals as a way to save money on cable subscriptions.
If it gains traction, this trend could undercut part of the rationale for selling off TV spectrum in voluntary auctions, approved by Congress on Friday, aimed at freeing up spectrum for wireless broadband.
There are signs that consumers are responding. TV-antenna seller Richard Schneider of St. Louis says sales at his company are soaring. Mr. Schneider’s Antennas Direct sold 70,000 antennas in January, and he expects to double last year’s sales of about 600,000. That was up from 400,000 antennas in 2010.
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http://moneyland.time.com/2012/02/21/the-return-of-television-rabbit-ears/
These days, engineering timed obsolescence into devices and products is a highly specialised operation. Ever notice that bright pink substrate under metallic-looking phones? That is done to stand out as the products experiences wear with use, making it appear visibly obsolete within a certain time span. Likewise, components are made to partially fail over time so that consumers replace the products using them with new ones. Companies produce new models so frequently these days, such practices are important to pay for R&D cycles.
They last until they break.
I was part of a team that automated Samsung’s LCD manufacturing facility. They ran us through a brief course on how they are manufactured and yes, they do have a ‘lifetime’. The article explains it fairly well.
Wow. That’s a whole lotta words just to say “beats me.”
I watch on my Toshiba TV—vintage 1992...still great.
“Wow. Thats a whole lotta words just to say beats me.”
Yeah, for sure. However, I noticed that DLP technology wasn’t mentioned in this thread. I own a DLP and the bulb went bad after five years. So, bought a new bulb, popped a panel on the side of the tv and swapped out old bulb with new buld and was back to 100% brightness and good to go. Course, new DLP tv’s are becoming a rare bird to find anymore. Oh well....
After much bally-hoo my rural area replaced their analog signals ...Where I received every available network NBC,ABC,CBS from locat afilliates with no problem. Then after purchasing three HDTV sets and setting them up. And for about alomost a year received their signals no-problema...Then they moved their antenna array. Today and for the past 3 years those HDTV sets are setting there collecting dust.. I rely on am radio
Our first Sharp 42” is still working ten years after we bought it.
The information that you are looking for is “mean time between failures”. (MTBF). When you know it, you will know how long 95% of the devices will still be working. Five per cent will have failed in that time period. If the MTBF is 9500 hours, after that time 95% of the devices will still be working and 5% will have failed.
I bought a Samsung 63" LCD five years ago and the picture was getting dimmer so we bought a new light bulb and I installed it {very simple to do}.
The original TV cost $2110 {including tax} and the replacement light bulb cost $145 {including tax and shipping} which is about 7% of the original price.
If it costs $145 every five years to make the TV perform as if it is new, I think it is cost justified.
If the same thing happens 5 years from now, why wouldn't I replace a light bulb {albeit a damn bright one} instead of buying a new TV?
It still has a great picture that rivals the newer LCDs and Plasmas. I just wish the color wheel motor was quieter.
Sounds like they will last until the next Gotta get me one of those technology breakthrough in TVs, that make all TVs before it old school. Not sure what that will be yet. Certainly not 3D. Too small of an interested market for those. But some big jump is 10 to 20 years ahead, you just know it.
Joe, there’s something wrong with your television. It’s all fuzzy and floppy and it tilts hard to the left.
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