Originally posted by: PurdueRy
How was this different from before?
I don't know, THAT is why I'm asking about all this! I never once claimed to know anything about this, hence the reason for starting a thread on it. I "thought" someone could provide the information in a polite friendly manner.
If you used OTA via analog you probably got...7 or so channels clearly. With the digital switch this number should INCREASE for most people to about 14 or so. This is because the smaller bandwidth required for digital signals allows you to pack more channels into the same area.
No, we strictly use cable, no airway antenna....except for the portable TV's for local channels which all use the antenna.
I still don't know what your talking about with the "native tuners". You wouldn't even be using the ATSC tuner in your TV if you had analog TV. Nor would you be using the NTSC tuner if you had a cable box. Cable has nothing to do with the converter boxes.
The tuner that comes in a TV is a native tuner. For decades, they have had to be tuned to ch. 3 or 4 and your cable box was used through that channel and this is how you watched
premium cable. So what kind of tuner, how many channels, and PIP is all useless and irrelevant if one always uses the cable box. All the TV needed was ch. 3 or 4 (or some kind of video input) to watch your cable TV
premium channels through the cable box. As you are aware, I, anyone I would assume, have to bypass the box through which you watch
premium cable in order to record one basic cable program while watching another basic cable program. This is when the TV's native tuner is used. I'm trying to ascertain if this will remain unchanged.
Yup, pretty much. you came in here ranting and raving about a change that has nothing to do with you. You started talking about the biggest lawsuit in history, how it was unfair etc. Now it is evident you don't know what the entire change is even about. Before you start complaining about something it would be much better to become better informed.Again, as another person said, TV is not a constitutional right. Times change, just feel lucky that the methods we've used to receive TV broadcasts have stayed the SAME for decades! That is VERY rare in the tech industry.
I can see you choose to be a trouble-making jerk. So how long have you worked for a cable company?? How I
"came in here" is of
NO CONCERN TO YOU!!! And NO,
I DO NOT KNOW what this all about for if I did
I WOULD NOT HAVE NEEDED TO START THIS GO*DAMN THREAD WOULD I!!! EXCUUUUUUUUUSE ME.
I, as do countless millions of others, have a lot of money tied up in portable TV's, (and computer tuner cards like the All-In-Wonder). Personally I have many; a TV for my car, 2 LCD 4" handheld TV's, a 5" CRT color TV, a 7.5" widescreen LCD TV, a 9" CRT TV, etc., all which can run off of batteries! Plus 3 PC's with AIW cards. Now, all the Billions we've spent on these devices, as the devices themselves, are total TRASH and it's more toxic $hit for the ever-exponentially-increasing toxic landfills--(except for CA which is the only sensible state with logical sensible disposal laws for said goods). Furthermore, (possibly) losing the ability to watch one program while recording another is an unacceptable situation for probably 200 million Americans. Both are a lose-lose situation for everyone (except of course the short-term gain by those that sell the new devices!) So yeah, I'm pissed off, REALLY pissed off about it, as anyone else would be that uses portable/mobile/PC TV's, and may have to pay twice the price for everything to get two of everything for at least recording situations to remain the same.
I am all for hi-tech gadgets and new technology, but NOT when it comes at such a price for so many with so many negative repercussions that far outweigh the one positive benefit.
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