"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:i6a52a$19j...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Weird. 'Nothing else matters' is such a depressing-sounding song, I still >> can't imagine any grandmothers liking it. (But then who am I to talk? My >> granda's in her 80's, drives a Celica, and is the only person in my >> family to own an HDTV.) > > I talked my dad into getting a 60" HDTV. He loves it, as his vision is > poor and he can see it easily. Big TV sets are a godsend for the elderly.
My grandma's HDTV is only about 13". Actually, the only reason she got it was because her old small bedroom TV finally died (And by "old" I mean it had two knobs: one for VHF, one for UHF - hardware wasn't always designed to be disposable like it is now) and the only new ones available were HD. Interesting thing to note is that this HD set with a rather expensive brand-new antenna and digital broadcast gets her *fewer* watchable channels than that ultra-old set did back before the analog cutoff. My dad's been even more worse off - since the switch he gets about one realistically watchable channel if he's lucky (used to get most of the local channels). And he's understandably pissed about it (partly because now he can't watch Letterman.) Neither of them live in rural areas. Broadcast DTV is shit. I honestly can't believe anyone was ever stupid enough to buy into the "DTV will give you more channels at better quality" bullshit. I mean seriously: you get interference on an analog signal and you get a little static overlaid - you get interference on digital signal and you get a dead fucking signal. Basic fucking electronic signaling. I saw through it from the start, but it's not like there was a damn thing I could have done about it - the overwhelming hordes of corporate lobbyists and consumer whores (Just visit "engadget") had spoken.
