Posted on 01/08/2009 9:27:20 AM PST by lewisglad
Thank you very much for that - will give it a try tonight.
(dial-up download here)
thanks for the reply - I didn’t really take the time to take a close look at what was happening until I saw your post earlier.
Don’t worry, Barack “Total Botch” Obama will fix it.
I wish I could tell you; but being no computer expert; I just don’t know. Someone else posted and said it’s not microsoft. It could be a number of things; but I got nailed no matter what it was.
And frankly, I am tired of paying money out.
Digital TV is “All or Nothing”. You either get a good signal or no signal at all. So if you had a little static before, you will no longer have static, but then again you may have a blank screen. But then, who wants to see 0bama for the next four years - I don’t. Re-runs of “My Mother The Car” would be more believable.
Another thing I learned. There is a commercial on television stating pay as you go phones. They state you don’t pay on the days you don’t use your phone. I thought well, that’s a good deal; until I talked to them and one person let slip you also pay a dollar extra a day when you use your phone. What a rip off. You know as well as I do most people are going to use their cell phone everyday; so that adds up to an additional $365.00 a year you pay including the usual charge and whatever else they can stick on. That was At*t and some service providers want more.
I believe that’s called a scam. So keep your regular service because it’s probably cheaper to go that route.
I bought one of those phones, but it did say on the packaging that you pay $1 on the days you use the phone.
It’s good for people like me - I rarely use my cell phone.
I want it if my car breaks down and if I have to tell someone I’m running late.
I rarely use it just to have a conversation with someone.
I can understand that and I agree; but there are a lot of people that have those things glued to their ears. LOL
yeah - my 19 yr. old daughter has a monthly plan with a year long contract.
She works and pays for it herself.
That thing never quits buzzing.
LOL.
Consumers Union is urging Congress to delay the nation's transition to digital television, saying the program to help TV viewers prepare for the switch next month has been underfunded and poorly implemented.Congress should investigate the so-called consumer magazines for their "ratings" of products which are mostly no longer available by the time their articles appear.
Thinking about it too long will literally drive you mad. Liberals are very hard to understand.
Most reviewers I checked who seem to have some experience with these things recommend this unit as the best one for people who may have difficult reception. I picked one up today at Radio Shack and it does the job using a plain rabbit ears.
One station (the NBC affiliate) has just barely enough signal and requires very careful adjustment of the antenna. (The built-in signal level meter helps in this regard.) I can see a lot of people losing stations like this when and if the changeover occurs.
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Most reviewers I checked who seem to have some experience with these things recommend this unit as the best one for people who may have difficult reception. I picked one up today at Radio Shack and it does the job using a plain rabbit ears.
The Channel Master CM-7000 is one of the highest rated converters especially for picture quality. It has an S-Video port that eliminates interference between the chroma and luminence signals.
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