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    samick wrote:
    I wouldn't even be looking for a tv if i wasn't sure that my current one was just one step away from being dead..........

    sorry but i don't need the latest marketing ploy...........

    it's not a "marketing ploy" that's just what they're selling now because that's what most people want to buy now. it's like complaining that you can't find a decent VCR anywhere.
  • Posts: 3,359
    Bangers'n'mash wrote:
    No sarcasm, that's the truth right there. Nothing compares to a tube tv in terms of picture quality.

    that's what everyone's always told me too.

    but I don't care about picture quality, I care about being able to lift the thing when I move :).
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    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    it's not a "marketing ploy" that's just what they're selling now because that's what most people want to buy now. it's like complaining that you can't find a decent VCR anywhere.
    VCRs, incidentially, are also easy to find still ;)
  • Posts: 5,153
    samick wrote:
    but it is..........and to make sure you don't make the wrong choice they take away your other options..........


    I may be alone in this thought but I don't need or really want a flat screen HDTV..........the picture on a Tube tv is just fine for me.........and for no more tv than i watch it's perfect...........

    i've got one that was made in 1985 (i bought it when i got a divorce) and it still works. we don't have a flat screen tv yet, my husband is waiting for the price to come down more than it already has. in our living room, we have a tv we bought from a cheap dept store 10 plus years ago. it's a good thing we don't have a huge tv b/c we had to crowd more stuff in our living room when my mom moved in with us.
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    LongRd. wrote:
    Anybody where and how much those HD-adapters are for analog TV's?

    I have a sweet big TV and don't want to get HD or plasma but will have to get an adapter somehow.

    I think you can buy them at everyone's favorite store, walmart :)
    I understand if you have comcast, you are fine.
    http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.html
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
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    iluvcats wrote:
    i've got one that was made in 1985 (i bought it when i got a divorce) and it still works. we don't have a flat screen tv yet, my husband is waiting for the price to come down more than it already has. in our living room, we have a tv we bought from a cheap dept store 10 plus years ago. it's a good thing we don't have a huge tv b/c we had to crowd more stuff in our living room when my mom moved in with us.
    the one i have now is like 10+ years old I got as a christmas present from my parents so it didn't cost me anything and served me well...............It 's everytime i turn it on I keep praying it's the time that it goes dead on me..........but it does take minute for the picture to start to get bright..........
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    samick wrote:
    I wouldn't even be looking for a tv if i wasn't sure that my current one was just one step away from being dead..........

    sorry but i don't need the latest marketing ploy...........

    I'm with you....sorry, but TV ain't that interesting. I have a TV but it's not on all that often except for football season. Have I seen games on a 62" HD screen? yup and yes, the quality is excellent. But not worth the money. I'd rather spend that kind of money on something I'd get more use from - a new saddle.
    believe it or not, we don't "need" anything. that is only the spoiled brat in us trying to fill some temporary solution to an emptyness that does not exist.

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  • Posts: 3,359
    samick wrote:
    the one i have now is like 10+ years old I got as a christmas present from my parents so it didn't cost me anything and served me well...............It 's everytime i turn it on I keep praying it's the time that it goes dead on me..........but it does take minute for the picture to start to get bright..........

    I've got one that's about 20 years old (actually I guess older...crap, I am old!). still works fine, but it was too small for my living room so I got a new one. I put the old one in my bedroom, which is weird for me because I've never had a TV in my bedroom in my life.
  • Posts: 373
    Well I caved in..........I've been all over hell and back.......couldn't find any.......so those bastards got me sucked in too..........Two days of searching.....
  • Posts: 3,359
    samick wrote:
    Well I caved in..........I've been all over hell and back.......couldn't find any.......so those bastards got me sucked in too..........Two days of searching.....

    what difference does it make? what exactly have you been "sucked in" to? it's just a TV, just a different shape.

    if you're going to say you got sucked into paying more, that's mute point- the only reason tube TVs are cheaper is because of the demand for lcds. so if there weren't any lcds, tube TVs would be the same price they are.
  • Posts: 373
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    what difference does it make? what exactly have you been "sucked in" to? it's just a TV, just a different shape.



    Cause i'm a tight ass.........and the tube tvs are right now pretty damn cheap
  • Posts: 3,159
    wrong thread....sorry.
    reigning champion

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
  • Posts: 249
    ev'n MErkingBoy is kon-phuzed bi dat laz pos'd. :confused:

    it iz ah buot TV...yes/no???
  • Posts: 3,359
    samick wrote:
    Cause i'm a tight ass.........and the tube tvs are right now pretty damn cheap

    yeah but as I added above, they wouldn't be cheap if a new technology hadn't taken over.
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    iluvcats wrote:
    I think you can buy them at everyone's favorite store, walmart :)
    I understand if you have comcast, you are fine.
    http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.html
    You know, I actually hate HD and Plasma...my friend has a big screen plasma and the movies look like they're homemade movies. I like my movies to look like fantasy, you know what I mean.

    I still use my old Goldstar analog TV my mom got me nearly 15 years ago, and it still works great.

    So I'm with the OP on this one, bad bad idea to just pull the plug on analog TV's just like that. They should have left an option for us old school TV lovers.
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    LongRd. wrote:
    You know, I actually hate HD and Plasma...my friend has a big screen plasma and the movies look like they're homemade movies. I like my movies to look like fantasy, you know what I mean.

    I still use my old Goldstar analog TV my mom got me nearly 15 years ago, and it still works great.

    So I'm with the OP on this one, bad bad idea to just pull the plug on analog TV's just like that. They should have left an option for us old school TV lovers.
    I agree, I really don't like the new plasmas or anything, I've been fiddling around with mine for the longest time, and the color/sharpness is still all kinds of fucked up.
    deep, deep blue of the morning
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  • Posts: 4,931
    You should have gone with no tv ;)
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  • Posts: 6,036
    Collin wrote:
    You should have gone with no tv ;)
    I'll probably will 2009 comes around. Plus, I only watch sports and ESPN anyways, might as well just hit the sports bar.

    I don't need no stinkin' HD/Plasma TV! :mad:
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    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • Posts: 2,146
    Jump in the time machine and fast forward to 1999!

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