Posted on 07/27/2007 4:01:58 PM PDT by rvoitier
Many owners of older TV sets who still receive free, over-the-air broadcasts are unaware that their sets will no longer function after Feb. 17, 2009 without a settop converter, lawmakers observed at a Washington D.C. hearing on Thursday.
“and the cowboys wore pink clothes and rode pink horses.”
ROTFL!
I really liked Roy Rogers, Trigger, and Gabby Hayes!
"We entertained ourselves! We didn't need TV. In my day, there was only one show in town -- it was called "Stare at the sun!" ... That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun till your eyeballs burst into flames! And you thought, "Oh, no! Maybe I shouldn't've stared directly into the burning sun with my eyes wide open." But it was too late! Your head was on fire and people were roastin' chickens over it. ... And that's the way it was and we liked it!"
I had this huge B&W TV that was supposed to be a “portable”. The only thing portable about it was the suitcase handle on the top. It must’ve weighed near a hundred pounds. You didn’t dare try to use the handle. for one thing, it took two hands to lift, and for another, that silly handle might not be strong enough to hold. It was too heavy to set on a card table. It lasted for years and years. It never once needed a repair. I don’t know what finally happened to it. Probably sold it in a garage sale for a couple bucks. The picture was not very good. Even when new it was kinda blurry and always had at least one ghost.
Ha, I just thought of something. Tell a kid these days that in the old days B&W TVs had ghosts and watch their expression.
I thought digital signals would just go out, rather than fade.The digital signals will have a 'hard' fail point (signal strength point), a point beyond which it will pretty much 'quit' like a digital satellite signal does; it is at that point that the EDAC (error detection and correction) code runs out of gas and can't correct for all the noise and/or interference that comes down the "IF" strip on its wat to the based-band A/D converter and then into the DSP for processing ...
No I don't do that either....LOL
Many years ago I was working in a audio/video store when they first started talking about this. Within a year or so they came out with those Sony Vegas, first flat screen (not flat panel TV) we'd ever seen. The 36" was about 400 lbs or so and costs well over $3000. Last year you could get one for about $700 or so on sale. And the flat panels cost thousands now. I've considered getting one but figure I'll wait until the absolute last minute and pick one up for a reasonable price. Anyway who needs a 60" to watch History International?
Actually, IIRC, that’s already been done.
My own tv set "went dark" years ago.
It will not be turned on again.
- John
Don’t know. Why in the hell don’t you ask the person that added it.
Can’t imagine my daughter’s reaction if I showed her my TV. She thinks I am ancient anyway and says I still live in the 80’s because of my music.
lolol, yep.
Yeah, except they’re very far away. And burning it lets you play it other places (like a classroom) as well.
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV ?
When I came home from college the first year, I found my sister cutting school every day to watch dialing for dollars. My father had died and she was not handling it very well. She had a paper that was due for English and she couldn’t go back to class until she finished it, so she came home every day.
I dug out one of my old papers and told her to retype it and go back to school. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of that.
I’m going to have to talk to Mr. Spotted Owl about this. We’re renting a manufactured home, but our landlords said we could do whatever we wanted. I would really like to try an antenna, but my bf and son love that stupid WWE wrestling. I think it’s on TNT? There was talk about just paying for the channels that you watch. I don’t know what happened to that.
Tom Daschole is deeply saddened!
I hope you don’t use torrentspy-
http://news.com.com/TorrentSpy+ordered+to+start+tracking+visitors/2100-1030_3-6189866.html
No doubt. I just hate all the transcoding time and then having a billion dvds hanging around (and I have issues about documenting possible criminal activity)
A buddy of mine solved the distance problem by using a separate computer that acted like his dvr and tying that into his wireless network
Torrentspy doesn’t even link to torrents anymore, but instead sends you to another tracker site.
How is using torrents these days? I tried using them when they first came out but was not impressed with the transfer speed.
With utorrent, the key is to ramp up your u/l speed to about 80% of your available speed and let’r rip. I can get up to 2m out of my 3m and still listen to internet radio while surfing the internet.
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