On the other hand, DTV OTA signals are carrying multiple sub-channels, while cable services only provide you the main ones (no -2's, -3's, etc).

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TV back then was about making a statement; now it's just about making money. You haven't lived until you've watched the Immaculate Reception on a 19" Zenith in an original wood cabinet. With the color skewed a little towards cyan, you can practically taste the Schlitz. All it needs is a gas crisis. Football on a 60" plasma just doesn't compare.

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There's a part of it that most people nowadays can't appreciate. Sure, digital TV gives you a "sharper" picture and you get stuff like 5.1 surround but you're missing out on so much more. Like adjusting the fine-tune dial to really tune in a station. Or, having to switch the top knob to "U" to get the UHF stations. There are people who don't even know what UHF is. And you don't even get knobs on TVs now.

You show someone still in high school an analog TV and I'll bet you they wouldn't even know how to turn it on, more or less how to get the news from Walter Cronkite.

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Ohh nostalgia why are you such a heartless shrew?

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yeah my TV, as far as i know, has been sitting on its lazy ass 24/7 since it was born. it spent some time laying down getting plugged the other day - again, lazy lazy lazy. didn't even push back when i was plugging it.

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I got a Wii and Wii Fit. My 200 lb. television had the audacity to call me overweight. Like that Wide Load was one to talk.

And yes, HDTV, you are fat. You're not widescreen; you're not 16:9; you're not a WEGA. YOU ARE FAT, YOU LOUSY CRT BEHEMOTH!

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the problem is that the skinny ones are always high maintenance. that's why i always go for TV's that are in good shape, but maybe have a little chub on em. there's less competition, and they dont make the rest of my appliances look ugly by comparison.

oh but they DO have to be black, and willing to accept multiple inputs simultaneously, and must be cool enough to let my friends watch, too. that's just how i roll.

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word to the red faction action!

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Wait... um, no.

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On a subject that's been mentioned in some other comments, it's true, some channels often look horrifically pixelated when you transition from analogue to digital, but that's not because of the method, it's because of the poor compression, equipment and recordings kept by some channels in a cost-cutting measure. Sometimes there's a show on Sky that just looks AWFUL because it's a poor copy, same with many other channels, but if it's a poor copy, I'll just change the channel and watch it elsewhere some other time.

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Do a little research, and I'm sure you'll discover somewhere along the line, that you're a dip-shit.

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