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it's not just in the US this is happening. australia is doing the
digital thing too.
major irritation to the glutus maximus if you ask me.
Shaun,
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On 23/11/2008 2:09 PM, we were able to ascertain that Butch Bussen
pondered upon these thoughts, and proclaimed thus.:
> Yep, I haven't seen anything cheap as far as a digital tv. We were
> talking about buying Libbie's dad a ttv for his kitchen, and they are
> expensive. No longer can we buy a color tv for under a hundred. One of
> the many down sides to this digital thing the fcc crammed down our
> throats. If the American public only knew how many millions and millions
> of dollars are being spend to replace and upgrade equipment.
>
> I haven't done much messing with smaller tvs, but I've found, as have
> other ham friends, that the converter boxes seem to have much hotter front
> ends in them than tv sets do. I've tried the zenith box here in Vegas,
> and get good signals off of rabbit ears.
>
> And, then there is the environment. How many thousand or millions of old
> sets are going to land fills.
>
> 73
> Butch Bussen
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