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Originally Posted by toonlight
Just use a good quality CRT TV with a scart socket for ease of use to deal with matter above.. as one option to over come the problem. I know there not sold any more in stores but a good serviced secondhand is good future investment than the later...modern day flat screen tv.
That's why a good old quality CRT TV, is good to have other than putting up with replacing a modern-day flat screen tv ever so many short years..... not me.... (modern flat screen TV).
A good CRT TV will last you years, by any way who needs a 40+ inch tv in your living room where a 36@CRT TV is just as good but much cheaper to buy in the first place ........ hence theres the method in ones madness.
Even serviced good second-hand tv, will do for a bedroom too or for a childs room. The tv in my bedroom is 28+yrs old (CRT TV - Ferguson) from my parents living room, when they didn't need it any more, I was watching the same tv as I grew up in late childhood day till collage days. That value for money if I have to say.
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Quite agree ... we bought a Sony widescreen CRT 7 or 8 years ago and its picture knocks spots off any LCD I've ever seen displaying an SD picture. TBH at normal viewing distance I'm sceptical that an HD screen of the same size would look any better in our front room.
And years ago my dad always swore by a local independent TV shop for repairs and additional TVs when needed. I had a secondhand one from there that lasted for years.
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Very true sir Chris, correction is noted - but I'd like to think I stated a point still. As with old sky box (I've got 2 my first & a spare second hand skyplus+ box ). With sky box you can upgrade if so, or when you wish to do so.. so that why think it's the better option out of the two, you see. It gives you more options for the future...
Yes I have noted regional difference when my box (with card) plays up after power outage, so yes some thing's matters I guess.
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It's true, Sky does give you the upgrade path, however the pay-TV market in the UK is quite mature now; essentially, most people who are ever likely to want it already have it. Freesat isn't aimed at people who ever might want Sky; it's aimed at people who want digital TV now but can't get it, because they're in a non-Freeview area (possibly on a relay transmitter), or an area that won't carry a full Freeview service even after switchover. To that extent, the upgrade path isn't relevant to most people. Freesat is very popular with sat installers who are fed up of putting FSFS rigs in (usually elderly) people's homes and then having to explain why the EPG is crammed full of listings they can't watch, and don't want.
Aside from that, there's the HD question. Even with the recent launch of HD services from some Freeview transmitters, it's difficult to see how the current terrestrial transmitter network is ever going to be capable of moving from a fully SD service to a fully HD service, similar to the change that occurred in the late 60s and early 70s with the switch from 405-line, VHF to 625-line UHF broadcast.
Freesat is the only platform in the UK today that is capable of delivering HD, free-to-air broadcast slots to each channel as and when that channel is ready to commence an HD service. There may be a queue to get access to the HD transponders on the satellites, but that's an insignificant issue compared to the simple lack of bandwidth that makes comprehensive HD an impossibility on Freeview (unless and until an entirely new and radically improved means of compression is developed and deployed).
Given all of the above, I can only imagine Jimmy Murdoch gave ITV a
very good deal to get their 2, 3 and 4-HD channels as Sky subscriber exclusives. Because in purely numerical terms, they have just agreed to put their channels where few people can see them, and even fewer people will watch them ... who really wants or needs to see Randall and Hopkirk (upscaled but still deceased)?