[BC] FCC Enforcing DTV Notice to Consumers

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

They started doing that as soon as "flat-panel" TVs came out.
I remember seeing a wonderful 42-inch TV at Best Buy for "only"
$2,999. ----Then I read the fine print. I needed to buy a receiver
and some speakers for $600. Consumers need to be aware.

I hung onto my perfectly-good 25-year old Sony tube TV and
bought a Motorola Digital receiver box to feed it from an off-
the-air signal. I could receive all the Boston, Providence,
and Manchester, NH., digital stations from an outside,
antenna as Radio Shack sales-persons claimed was
impossible without a special digital antenna! Note that
aluminum tubing somehow knows if its digital.
Buyer beware.

Eventually, since DSL wouldn't work, I needed to connect
to the Internet through cable. That's when I bought a
"fully integrated" flat-panel TV. They are now pretty cheap.
But, they take at least one-second for a channel change
because of the way a digital picture is "built up." This makes
channel-surfing a pain.

--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Alan Kline <akline at netins.net>
> You'd prefer that unscrupulous retailers dump soon-to-be-useless 
> NTSC-only sets on unsuspecting consumers?
> 
> ak
> 
> Bob Barnswatts wrote:
> > Clearly too much government for our own good.
> 
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