othertonka
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That has been my problem also. What is a TV on this forum? Oh!! most of you have been talking about Television? Or have some of you been talking about a TOW VEHICLE? We need a better abrevation for both of these. I could never figure out how you could tow a 35ft 5er with a Television. Or a dual wheel television. Or a digital convertor for a Tow Vehicle. TV on this forum has been real confusing but I bet neither side will budge, so a TV will still mean two things I guess.
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portscanner wrote:I am going to be one of those people who will REFUSE to upgrade my TV. There is nothing wrong with it. It works fine. I just bought it a year ago and I normally keep my TVs for 10-15 years and I will be DAMNED if I am going to go buy a new one or get a "converter" when there is nothing wrong with it. The FCC can go stick it! I don't understand what the FCC has to do with my TV, anyway. If anything it should be the DOT if any government agency has a problem with TV's. This is just another case of government bureaucracies over reaching their authority. How can you make a "digital" diesel TV anyway? Do you binary encode the fuel? Where do you plug this box in? They will probably make these boxes only for a few selected makes and models of TV's and everyone else will have to buy new TV's.
Next thing, it will be digital weight distribution hitch or a digital slider hitch. When are we going to put our foot down and stop the government from overstepping its bounds?!?!
I presume you posted this "Tongue in cheek"? 
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portscanner wrote:I am going to be one of those people who will REFUSE to upgrade my TV. There is nothing wrong with it. It works fine. I just bought it a year ago and I normally keep my TVs for 10-15 years and I will be DAMNED if I am going to go buy a new one or get a "converter" when there is nothing wrong with it. The FCC can go stick it! I don't understand what the FCC has to do with my TV, anyway. If anything it should be the DOT if any government agency has a problem with TV's. This is just another case of government bureaucracies over reaching their authority. How can you make a "digital" diesel TV anyway? Do you binary encode the fuel? Where do you plug this box in? They will probably make these boxes only for a few selected makes and models of TV's and everyone else will have to buy new TV's.
Next thing, it will be digital weight distribution hitch or a digital slider hitch. When are we going to put our foot down and stop the government from overstepping its bounds?!?!
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Rick From Sequim
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Ummm, tv's don't really cost that much if you stay away from the huge plama stuff. Why not just splurge and buy a new tv? Bet the color, clarity and contrast will be MUCH better. Small rv sized sets are fairly inexpensive if tv is really important to you.
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rray32539
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portscanner wrote:I am going to be one of those people who will REFUSE to upgrade my TV. There is nothing wrong with it. It works fine. I just bought it a year ago and I normally keep my TVs for 10-15 years and I will be DAMNED if I am going to go buy a new one or get a "converter" when there is nothing wrong with it. The FCC can go stick it! I don't understand what the FCC has to do with my TV, anyway. If anything it should be the DOT if any government agency has a problem with TV's. This is just another case of government bureaucracies over reaching their authority. How can you make a "digital" diesel TV anyway? Do you binary encode the fuel? Where do you plug this box in? They will probably make these boxes only for a few selected makes and models of TV's and everyone else will have to buy new TV's.
Next thing, it will be digital weight distribution hitch or a digital slider hitch. When are we going to put our foot down and stop the government from overstepping its bounds?!?!
I do hope your post is in jest. Please.
TV involves RADIO signals. Doubt my word? If channel six broadcasts in your area, tune your radio to 87.5 MHZ FM. You'll HEAR the audio from the tv station! Radio and other wireless communications are governed by the FCC. The DOT governs transportation. They have an agreement. The FCC doesn't run weigh stations and police commercial transport, the DOT doens't handle broadcast licenses and interference complaints.
If you're keeping TVs for fifteen years, you HAVE to be tossing them when they fail. The manufacturers don't make parts for that long!
The new sets are more energy efficient, can bring in more channels, the digital broadcasting process is more efficient in putting more channels in the same space. Even the picture is better.
Regulation of TV IS a government function, and has been since the earliest days of TV.
Again, I hope you were joking....
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branson4020
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So Richard,
What if I have digital TV in my diesel dually TV? Hmmmm?
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I guess I'll have to chuck it out with the rest of the junk.... Along with the CB Radio, 8mm movie camera, record player, 8 Track Deck, and my 1989 vintage computer. Paid a lot of hard earned money for them, now all junk.... I guess the $800. 35mm camera is next.... Ahhh Progress
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We have Dish network at home, a hi def TV in our snowbird trailer (29 ft), we'll get one of those conversion boxes for our traveling trailer (22 ft). BTW... the hi def TV works just fine on our 1997 trailer antenna. Of course, the picture is not hi def.
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branson4020 and others are correct. There will be TV broadcasting on both VHF and UHF channels following the shutdown of analog TV next year. Some stations will remain on their present analog channel and simply move from analog to digital. Others will move to a new channel for digital and simply go dark on the old analog channel. Each situation depends upon the individual station. There will be no TV channels above 51 however following analog shutdown. The spectrum occupied by Channels 52 and above will be re-allocated to other services. And the US is not alone. Most other developed countries as well as many others are already in the conversion process. Most of Europe will be converted by 2010 to 2012 and many stations are already converted there. China, Australia and others are also converting on similar schedules. As already pointed out, if you get your service from cable or satellite, you won't see any change until much later. Only those who depend solely on a signal directly from the station will be forced to immediately buy a new set or a converter box come Feb 2009. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television for details. The another misconception is that everything digital will be in high definition, or HD. This is not true. A digital TV station will be allowed to use their digital as they see fit, broadcasting as many as four different programs simultaneously. With 4 digital program channels, all will have to be in what will be a quality much like the old analog signal, or SD, Standard Definition. An HD channel will require about half of the digital bandwidth and thus many stations will carry their main programming at HD quality and up to two SD digital channels at the same time. Or two HD channels. One station in our area is already doing this with NBC in HD, CW in SD and Fox in SD. It will be interesting. Mike
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portscanner wrote:I am going to be one of those people who will REFUSE to upgrade my TV. There is nothing wrong with it. It works fine. I just bought it a year ago and I normally keep my TVs for 10-15 years and I will be DAMNED if I am going to go buy a new one or get a "converter" when there is nothing wrong with it. The FCC can go stick it! I don't understand what the FCC has to do with my TV, anyway. If anything it should be the DOT if any government agency has a problem with TV's. This is just another case of government bureaucracies over reaching their authority. How can you make a "digital" diesel TV anyway? Do you binary encode the fuel? Where do you plug this box in? They will probably make these boxes only for a few selected makes and models of TV's and everyone else will have to buy new TV's.
Next thing, it will be digital weight distribution hitch or a digital slider hitch. When are we going to put our foot down and stop the government from overstepping its bounds?!?!
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