For instance my office
TV is always tuned to Fox News and my back is to it, so radio would
suffice.
Ha ha! No surprise there. Feed your right-wing brain directly from the
tap. Fox News. The American equivalent of Al Jazeera.
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BTW, I've had a DTV/HDTV TV for several years now. I get my local
stations OTA. It's just like FM radio. If you have a strong enough
signal it's perfect. If you don't, nada. I also have Directv via
satellite, so almost all my TV watching is digital now. It works, Jim.
You should learn to embrace technology.
I do think the prices are way to high for the consumer. I bought my TV
around year 2000. It has a good large picture and built-in
Standard/DTV/HDTV/Directv reception. All for about $2000 ($1500 shortly
after I bought.) I look from time to time, but I don't see buys like
that anymore. Sometimes an ok buy on a TV, but with nothing DTV built-in
so hundreds of dollars away.
Happy in general with my digital TV experience, except for the
disappointment of the crappy video quality of most of the Directv
channels due to the low bandwidth they are providing. Less noticable to
the average consumer with a current crappy TV.
I've got the HDTV monitor too in my TV. Very impressive to watch the
programming that is done for it. Started watching "Desperate Housewives"
on OTA just because it looked so good in HDTV, then got sorta hooked on
the clever soap opera. On Directv, the only thing in HD (that I'm
willing to pay for) is HBO. Looks good when they broadcast something
that I can stand to watch. I think HBO has gone way down hill in the
last few years.
Our local PBS station (KQED) is a leader in HDTV broadcasting. They have
it technically more under control than most of the network stations. On
the ABC big shows (Desperate Housewives, Lost) they kept screwing up the
HDTV OTA broadcasts in multiple ways. Sheesh! I think it was probably a
protest against cost cutting by the local ABC workers. But maybe it was
just incompetence.