SD Channels Go Dark?
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I'm surprised the government hasn't started a program where people with the older pre-HD TVs that is only SD can be paid by the government by trading their old TV with a cheap 720p or 1080p/1080i HDTV TV. It should had happened during the DTV transition of 2009 where the old analog SD TV signals where shut down to go all digital.
Instead, the government supplied boxes that would receive the new digital signal that could be ported to the old TVs. A lot less expensive than the government replacing TVs. BTW there are still many SD signals on the digital stream OTA. There was no government mandate to go full HD, just digital channels....
I read an article that said over 85% percent of the TV households in the US have at least 1 HDTV, but less than 40% actually watch HD programing on them. I had a co-worker that bought a new 70" HDTV and was wondering why the picture was so bad. He had a SD receiver connected with a composite video cable. My brother-in-law had a 65" HDTV and a HD receiver, which was set for 480i. I changed it to 1080i and he said "WOW, I didn't know the TV could look that good". I think a lot of people don't know what HD is supposed to look like.
I've been in and out of a TON of hospitals, Dr's offices, Nursing Homes....ALL with HDTVS in every room...showing the less costly SD content from their local cable Co's. Thousands of wasted televisions!!!
Of course they were! They wasted SOOOOO much money, in the relative early HD days for nothing. Would been better of buying a butt load of converter boxes and kept the 10-20 yr old TVs they already had.
It's a colloquial variation of the word "what", often written ironically to make the writer seem less intelligent.
I was hoping to find out what "Does the TV convey?" meant, originally posted by Krell.
I was trying to make a joke after reading OSU write this:
The humor about getting this TV by buying the house was supposed to be that OSU (I am sure) didn't want anything to do with that 25" console SDTV with matching side speakers. I wouldn't either. You probably couldn't give it away.
Sigh. When you explain a joke, it's no longer funny.
I got it... But you're explanation was ironically funny too!I was trying to make a joke after reading OSU write this:
The humor about getting this TV by buying the house was supposed to be that OSU (I am sure) didn't want anything to do with that 25" console SDTV with matching side speakers. I wouldn't either. You probably couldn't give it away.
Sigh. When you explain a joke, it's no longer funny.
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I was trying to make a joke after reading OSU write this:
The humor about getting this TV by buying the house was supposed to be that OSU (I am sure) didn't want anything to do with that 25" console SDTV with matching side speakers. I wouldn't either. You probably couldn't give it away.
Sigh. When you explain a joke, it's no longer funny.
The explanation was funny too
I still don't understand the sentence, "does the TV convey?", even with the explanation.
But, the joke is funny, or would have been to me, if I understood the sentence.
But, the joke is funny, or would have been to me, if I understood the sentence.
You could use that 25" console for target practice, of course the worst part will be getting that thing out of the house, no telling how much it weighs.
Well my SKS would make short work of the target practice part, but I lifted my last CRT years ago. We had a 32in Sony CRT on the top shelf of my dads garage, that my brother in law and I lifted 8ft off the ground to get it up there about 9-10 yrs ago. Needless to say it was sold with the house last year, when my dad downsized to a smaller townhome with no maintenance.
