The problem, David, is that after the first of the year, all broadcasters are required to switch to digital signals, so even if you have a "tube tv," you won't be able to pick up the signals. Ostensibly this has been done to free up analog bandwidth for the various devices we use these days--in particular radio bandwidth for emergency responders.
NB: You will be able to buy a converter for your tube tv that will convert analog to digital until your tube tv dies. I've heard that they're going to run between $100 and $200.
Louise
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:26:32 -0500
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I don't see how to make this post caving related, but it seems like
an interesting historical event.
I was in Fry's last week and they didn't have a single tube TV for sale.
Not even the little 13 inchers with integrated VCR or DVD.
Today, on the web, Best Buy announced that they have stopped selling
them also.
They claim it is related to the lack of future analog broadcasting.
I am guessing it has more to do with holiday gift sales and they just
need to have the room for the flat-panels which are obviously what everybody
will probably buy for the holiday season.
My family got it's first color tube TV in 1972, and I remember how exciting
at the age of 8 to finally see upclose Mary Ann and Ginger. My parents
and my paternal grandparents and my younger brother and I, would all
gather around the TV and watch Wild Kingdom, and Daniel Boone, and
Davey Crocket
and we would turn it off to eat dinner. Then one day, we got the
idea to put the TV in the living room at an angle where everyone could
watch it while eating dinner. Life was never the same after that.
I can't say I am going to miss the tube TV. The wall-mounted plasma
screens are just too cool. I imagine some discount store will
continue selling the tube TV until the price of a similar LCD model is less.
David Locklear
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