Analog for me was 3 channels at best, and mostly included golden girls, or insert de jour standard of what people like that week.
Digital fixed that, along with offering extra functions that would normally only be on cable like instant weather, and multiple versions of a channel, 24+ channels total! Realizing the entire world doesn't rotate around you is the first thing that helps, and realizing that you can make an antenna for cheap is the next. If analog was beautiful even in bad conditions and digital didn't, it might have been during the time of transition where power was reduced to half on the digital transceivers, or your antenna isn't setup right for unidirectional signals. It's not quite like NTSC, you do need to direct to antenna towards the transceivers. You go ahead and stick primarily with hulu, if it works for you then that's great. I used to use it as well. I've gotten to the point myself that I like watching CNN occasionally, then flipping to History/Discovery Channel & Comedy Central. I'm willing to spend $600/year for cable. Yeah, I did the math, it's actually less than $50/month but I figured I'd round it up to $50 just to be fair.
It's a commercial version of what I've made for $10, and even right beside my TV at 25 miles, it was great. That was before the full transition, when half of the signal power was used... and mine was without the pre-amp that's with this one.
What is it with people constantly adding this to a technology as it's being phased out... "not the which people rely upon for Tornado Warnings and other emergency events."
FM, AM, shortwave, ham radio, you could insert a billion different media methods in there. TV is by far not what I rely on for tornado warnings, or any kind of emergency event. It's what you use to see what happens after that event;)
Well, I do have to say that if you live out in a very rural area, it definitely does hit you unless you get a better antenna and aren't one of those individuals that actuallly believe you can use the same antenna with DTV at that range.
A decent antenna (a bowtie style) can be made for a cheap price of less than 10 bucks, or purchased for $40-$60. Those things are awesome for long-range. I made one when DTV was just being phased into here in the states, and it was awesome!
Not much information is out there about the segascope 3d glasses. Since I didn't care to own that stuff due to the price and the lack of lifespan, you'll have to figure that one out.
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I think the right way to say it is "xp doesn't suck as much". I don't think saying xp works and it's stable, is in any way the right way to say it.
You're quite the optimist. I bet you're the kind of person that would win the lotto then click your tongue, and complain about the taxes on the money. Cleaning the animals is a step above leaving them in the water or wherever to die. Always better to try, then to just shrug and say "Oh well, this is what god would have wanted..."
Thanks to the widening of the Atlantic ocean shortly after radio was invented, to avoid such a calamity. We have enough people in those "special" homes.
Actually, no, it wasn't the only place that song was ever played. It was played on a top 40 radio station in the mid 80's quite a bit. It was played as a joke, to lighten people's moods.
There's electricity, just not people packed up each others ass, like in some foreign countries... There are cities, just not touching each other everywhere...
The sun isn't man-made and it's circular... circular != man-made man-made usually equals circular, however. I do agree though, when I saw the picture the first time I instantly thought, "PHOTOSHOPPED!" because it looked so out of place and video-game'ish.
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You wouldn't need smelting at least ... just someone willing to catch molten rock after reentry.
Hey, China has enough people...
ahhh dude, that brought the most beautiful ending of that south park episode ahah.. I loved that!
Why even attempt to convert for "non-geeks" (seriously.. military = Geeks? wtf) when only geeks care about Futurama...
And only a NICHE of them.
Analog for me was 3 channels at best, and mostly included golden girls, or insert de jour standard of what people like that week.
Digital fixed that, along with offering extra functions that would normally only be on cable like instant weather, and multiple versions of a channel, 24+ channels total!
Realizing the entire world doesn't rotate around you is the first thing that helps, and realizing that you can make an antenna for cheap is the next.
If analog was beautiful even in bad conditions and digital didn't, it might have been during the time of transition where power was reduced to half on the digital transceivers, or your antenna isn't setup right for unidirectional signals.
It's not quite like NTSC, you do need to direct to antenna towards the transceivers.
You go ahead and stick primarily with hulu, if it works for you then that's great. I used to use it as well. I've gotten to the point myself that I like watching CNN occasionally, then flipping to History/Discovery Channel & Comedy Central. I'm willing to spend $600/year for cable. Yeah, I did the math, it's actually less than $50/month but I figured I'd round it up to $50 just to be fair.
It depends how far you are from the transmitter... 60 miles, and your pushing these for $60:
http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?mc=03&p=DB8&d=Antennas%20Direct%20DB8%20UHF%20HDTV%20TV%20Antenna%20(DB8)&c=TV%20Antennas&sku=DB8&utm_campaign=GAN&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=k232272
It's a commercial version of what I've made for $10, and even right beside my TV at 25 miles, it was great. That was before the full transition, when half of the signal power was used... and mine was without the pre-amp that's with this one.
When things "just work" for 30+ years, introducing so many changes for no perceived benefit (from grandma's perspective) is extremely frustrating.
Now they know how their parents felt when that pesky social security tax came, and the radio was replaced by television.
Rural areas, especially in farm states, pretty uniformly do not have cable TV access.
You're stuck with satellite or learning about antenna technologies, then.
Or some form of internet.
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What is it with people constantly adding this to a technology as it's being phased out... "not the which people rely upon for Tornado Warnings and other emergency events."
FM, AM, shortwave, ham radio, you could insert a billion different media methods in there. ;)
TV is by far not what I rely on for tornado warnings, or any kind of emergency event. It's what you use to see what happens after that event
Well, I do have to say that if you live out in a very rural area, it definitely does hit you unless you get a better antenna and aren't one of those individuals that actuallly believe you can use the same antenna with DTV at that range.
A decent antenna (a bowtie style) can be made for a cheap price of less than 10 bucks, or purchased for $40-$60. Those things are awesome for long-range. I made one when DTV was just being phased into here in the states, and it was awesome!
You can also buy used underwear on craigslist, or old toasters.
You're point?
Size isn't everything, sometime's it's the quality as well. I mean if you want to get everything for next to nothing, you suck it up I guess...
CD and DVD was pricey when it first came out also.
It's a niche market, right now.
Not much information is out there about the segascope 3d glasses.
Since I didn't care to own that stuff due to the price and the lack of lifespan, you'll have to figure that one out.
I think the right way to say it is "xp doesn't suck as much".
I don't think saying xp works and it's stable, is in any way the right way to say it.
There are no hydrogen molecules in water.
So the H in H2O means Helium?
You're quite the optimist. I bet you're the kind of person that would win the lotto then click your tongue, and complain about the taxes on the money.
Cleaning the animals is a step above leaving them in the water or wherever to die. Always better to try, then to just shrug and say "Oh well, this is what god would have wanted..."
It's also intended to convey what a particular woman on the cable news says that's like a nail on the chalkboard.
"i'm just sayin'". ugh...
Google it.
I didn't listen to it, but the least you can do is google something before you ask it that obliviously...
a WORLD of difference...
UK radio doesn't come in so well in the states.
Thanks to the widening of the Atlantic ocean shortly after radio was invented, to avoid such a calamity.
We have enough people in those "special" homes.
Actually, no, it wasn't the only place that song was ever played.
It was played on a top 40 radio station in the mid 80's quite a bit. It was played as a joke, to lighten people's moods.
We all fixed it, mentally, every time we read it.
There's electricity, just not people packed up each others ass, like in some foreign countries...
There are cities, just not touching each other everywhere...
The sun isn't man-made and it's circular...
circular != man-made
man-made usually equals circular, however.
I do agree though, when I saw the picture the first time I instantly thought, "PHOTOSHOPPED!" because it looked so out of place and video-game'ish.
Sorry my friend, but Microsoft sadly is not the only company who uses the term "feature".
They also aren't the only company who do coding...