D.Duck wrote:
"John H." wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:58:30 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is
Here wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:51:59 -0500, "JimH" wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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My day was great. I spent some bucks on fishing gear, and my wife
bought
me some new "resort" clothes for my trip next week.
I spent the afternoon with Mrs. H shopping for a stand for our new HDTV
as
we will be giving our old 36" RCA (1994 vintage) cathode ray and stand
to
our daughter since receiving our new 46" Sony HDTV.

The payoff was a great shrimp and crap dinner followed by a movie on
the new
TV.

BTW: Time Warner sucks big time as it does not appear to recognize
HDMI.
Although the S-Video input works on our box/set the HDMI input does
not,
despite swapping out TW HD boxes, HDMI cables and trying various
settings on
the new Sony.



JimH, is there a reason you must tell us for at least the third time
that
you're giving your 16 year-old TV to your daughter?

We all believe you are a most generous person!


I can't figure out what else he would have done with the TV, a 12 yr old
non digital, standard format TV has no value.
My math sucks!

Actually, if one has cable the company will rent a box that will enable
the
use of an analog TV when we go all digital next year. So, that TV will
still be have significant value.

Maybe about $4.37.
--
John H

Why would you have to do anything different when broadcast analog TV is
turned off and you have cable for your source? The cable company will
receive the digital video signals, as they do currently in some cases, and
pass an analog signal from their box to your TV.

I know for a fact that the satellite services will be that mode.



An analog TV with a conventional TV format, will still function with
cable, satellite or by using a converter box, but you will lose either
side of the transmission. It will be similar to when you watched a
movie on a regular TV and they did a poor job of pan and scan. You knew
you were missing something from your screen that you would see with
widescreen format. With TV they will not do pan and scan, you just
won't be able to see whatever is going on the sides. It is the reason
why conventional format TV are being sold so cheaply.