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Subject: Re: OT: I finally joined the world of HDTV

Date: Mon 12/02/07 17:18:05 GMT

Name: Neptune the Lesser

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Yeah, content is a big problem. Does the world really need HD Rosie? HD "Homicidal Housepets 6"? Not good, not good at all.

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Re: OT: I finally joined the world of HDTV

By MK - wamtec@compuserve.com Mon 12/02/07 16:33:09 GMT

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Nice one......then you are way ahead of me then....cos I do not have HDTV yet...mainly because I have yet to find any decent programming in HD that I wanted to see. No matter how hard I try...I just can't get off on watching bears mating in the woods and other nature programs, or documentaries about surfers or mountain climbers. Jay Leno is a funny guy....but I can still get the jokes on a standard TV and he is not any funnier in HD mode.

I think HD is a "must" if you are a sports fan though....cos it offers you all the great games in amazing quality. But for a movie buff like me...there is no need to see movies broadcast in HD....you can just go and rent a DVD if you want to watch a movie in high quality. For wetlook fans, there is practically nothing in the way of content that you can get on HDTV....i.e. all the best foreign channels on satellite...are not in HD format...only the major networks are.

So far, HDTV has failed to deliver what it promised us 5 years ago....i.e. they promised us that HD TV would give the user "interactivity" and control over what we wish to view....so they promised us 5 years ago....that we could watch sporting events and WE could select what camera angle to view a football game from. For example, there are always 20-40 cameras at an NFL game...and they said that with the advent of HDTV we could select the camera angles to view the game from...and you can do that with HDTV in Japan and Germany....but not in the USA yet.

I am waiting for the day when the NFL does true HTDV broadcasting where WE can choose the camera angles....so then when it rains...we can watch the enture game from the cheerleaders camera angle......ha ha. The Superbowl last month was a washout....in both senses of the word....i.e. it poured with rain all thru the gane...and there were 48 cameras at that event....and the game lasted 4hrs...yet they only showed a measly 4 seconds of wet cheerleader shots fthru that entire game.

If HDTV would allow us to pick the camera angles to view from...which is what they said 5 years ago that HDTV would give us....then I would pay 10 grand for a tv like that....but I am not going to buy HDTV merely to see the pimples on Jay Leno's face as he tells his jokes.

BTW....Desert Hawk.....now that you can afford HDTV....I trust you have finally bought yourself your own pc now....and we will not hear you talking about using the public library to access the internet any more....ha ha....cos having HDTV but not owning a pc.....would be like driving a Cadillac....but living in a tent.

ha ha

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OT: I finally joined the world of HDTV

By Desert Hawk - Mon 12/02/07 08:15:12 GMT

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Ever since HDTV came out in 1998 I have wanted one. However I do not have room for a bigscreen tv, nor can I afford $2000-$5000. I also wanted an HDTV with a built-in digital tuner. I have searched tv departments for years and seen lots of bigscreen HDTVs with built-in digital tuners, and lots of small screen "HDTV monitors" or "HD-ready" tvs. Nothing that I was interested in. The search got more urgent recently when my old tv in my bedroom started showing signs that it's life was almost over. Buying a new analog tv today is STUPID, since analog tv will cease to exist in February 2009. Buying an analog tv today would be as stupid as buying Latvian Lats for my paper money collection, knowing that they will be replaced by the euro probably next year. I had serious doubts that my old tv would last another 2 years. Fortunately I found the Vizio VX20L at Costco last week.. Apparently so far the ONLY small screen HDTV with a built-in digital tuner on the market! This tv is wonderful. I subscribe to Bright House cable analog expanded basic. I have never subscribed to any premium channels or service tiers, and greatly prefer to use cable-ready tvs instead of converter boxes. I hooked the cable to my new HDTV and am able to receive 10 digital cable channels, 4 of them in high definition (CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS). (I can receive the analog cable channels also, of course). The high definition channels look absolutely superb! Every bit as good as HD on a bigscreen tv. I watched "Lost" last week and there was a woman in tan khaki pants soaking wet. The picture looked even better than a wetlook picture on the internet. All women look much better in HD than standard definition. This tv is the perfect tv for anyone looking for a smallscreen bedroom size HDTV and/or looking for a low priced HDTV. A completely modern tv for about the same price as a 19 inch analog tv with dial tuning and no remote would have cost in the late 70's. I hope that when analog cable is discontinued, that the cable company will send all the digital basic service channels unscrambled. I do not want to have to use a converter box then. In the mid 80's my cable company scrambled all channels above 13, rendering cable-ready tuners useless. Many people including myself complained about this frequently. They finally relented and left all basic channels unscrambled (they now use in-line filters to prevent reception of expanded basic channels by limited basic subscribers). Stand up and demand that they do the same for digital basic channels! Let's demand our right to use built-in clear QAM tuners for digital cable! No converter boxes!

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