Well there are some new smaller TVs with a digital tuner. I plan to purchase 2 13" from Wal-Mart for around $100 each. The one is for my brother who is in a personal care home. What I wanted for him was the TV radio, no picture screen, but can't locate a digital version. And the other I want to put in the spare bedroom so I can relax and listen to the news and diy TV while laying on a message mat.The treadmill is in that room but I am sure that the mat will win. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital compliant TVs
I have found a lot of the information about the digital conversion to be pretty confusing. Not surprisingly, the info from my cable company is pretty biased toward doing something in their favor. If you have a digital convertor box from the cable company, you won't need to do anything with your TV. If you have a newer TV, like a 27 inch or larger, set purchased within the last three years, it probably has a digital convertor built in. If you take your TV signal direct from the air, (no cable), or like me, have no convertor box, just the cable going straight into the TV, you will need to get a convertor box or a new TV. The feds will be coughing up 40 dollar coupons for anyone making less than some amount of household income, to purchase a convertor box. I was poking around on the comcast website, my local cable mafia affiliate, and it is pretty impressive how expensive cable is these days. I have the most basic cable possible, only the network channels, and one or two other stations and it costs me $16 a month. If I upgrade to the next best thing, it jumps up to like 50 bucks a month. What a gouge! -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links
