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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: BT on January 01, 2008, 01:00:53 AM
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Hope yours is a good one.
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I hope yours is good, too, for everyone.
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Happy 2008 everyone!
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I've been at my middle son's house all night playing Moods, Balderdash and Catch Phrase, intermittently watching Dick Clark (though I hate Ryan Seacrest) and drinking more than my limit of beer (Diet A & W Root, that is). So fo rme it's going to be a Nappy New Year (and not the British definition of that word)!
To everyone else who has been, perhaps, not as wild and sinful as I tonight (and those who were) a Happy 2008.
My predictions for 2008:
Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination and in a surprise move, selects Barak Obama as his running mate in an attempt to create a bipartisan, interracial ticket. The entire rightwing Evangelical block immediately expires of a collective attack of apoplexy. Romney is unsuccessful in his attempt to get Oprah to make her December Book Club pick "The Book of Mormon."
Hillary Clinton attempts to counter this by inviting Condoleeza Rice to join her but withdraws the offer after hearing Bill Clinton humming the tune "Brown Sugar." She settles for Joe Lieberman, figuring he's close enough to a Republican.
Osama bin Laden is captured entering the United States after mistakenly thinking that Romney has called HIM to be running mate.
Early in the year, as the imminent Democratic landslide becomes apparent, Bush drops all pretense and renames Operation Iraqi Freedom "Haliburton presents Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)."
The Hillary-Lieberman ticket wins the election, after which Lieberman mysteriously "commits suicide" and Hillary appoints her husband, Bill, as Vice President (after first establishing that she gets first dibs on the interns).
After establishing the all-Clinton, all-the-time White House, Hillary abandons all pretense and renames the position of President of the United States "She Who Must Not Be Named" and redesignates her airplane "Air Force 666."
After Guiliani loses the nomination to Romney, the Patriots win the Superbowl and the Red Sox repeat as baseball champs, solidifying Boston as the sports dynasty city of the twenty first century. New York promptly sues Boston for Divine Right infringment.
Michael Moore and Al Gore announce a new jointly-produced documentary called "You People Will Buy Anything So Why Not?" suggesting that the Republicans actually were behind 9-11, Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Maine, the assassination of Lincoln, the destruction of the Knights Templar and the Fall of Man. They are awarded a special new combined Oscar and Nobel Prize known as the "P.T.Barnum Achievement" award.
The Republican National Committee hastily announces the destruction of some "old records which no longer have any value as eviden . . . uh, historical documents."
Britney Spears gets in trouble with the law and it is reported as if it is actually news. (I might as well throw in one sure thing.)
Happy New Year to all!
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Ditto 8) 2008 HAS to be better than 2007
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Happy New Year to everyone, and Pooch, thanks for my first laugh of 2008.
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happy newyear everybody
I think we got 1 more year to change over to HD on our TV
it`s not gonna be smooth
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happy newyear everybody I think we got 1 more year to change over to HD on our TV it`s not gonna be smooth
NO? It should be Kimba. As I mentioned earlier, you can get one of the newer model widescreen HDTV's, at a pretty low price of just under $1000, with the tuner already built in, and get crystal clear high def right thru your roof antenna. No cable or satellite necessary 8)
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I think we got 1 more year to change over to HD on our TV
Really? When did this come about?
Last I heard, there was a mandated switch to digital service, NOT high definition. And most TV sets sold in the last 15 years already handle digital service.
(There are three levels of digital service, and high definition is the best in quality of the three. The mandate is for digital service, not "the best" digital service.)
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I think we got 1 more year to change over to HD on our TV
...there was a mandated switch to digital service, NOT high definition. And most TV sets sold in the last 15 years already handle digital service. (There are three levels of digital service, and high definition is the best in quality of the three. The mandate is for digital service, not "the best" digital service.)
Good clarification, Ami
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what about the folks who don`t want to chuck they`re still working set for the more costly units?
it might work if converters are being sold are for less than $40
also it`ll still be rough
no portables will work
doubt anybody will bother making converters for the small tv`s
and it`ll most likely be awhile for the digital portables.
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what about the folks who don`t want to chuck they`re still working set for the more costly units?
I don't know of too many people that have "still working" TVs that are over 15 years old. And you can buy digital TVs for under $100, under $50 if you wait for a sale. It's not a major expense.
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no portables will work
doubt anybody will bother making converters for the small tv`s
and it`ll most likely be awhile for the digital portables.
All of this is untrue. As a matter of fact, I know of no portable TVs without a digital receiver.
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no portables will work
doubt anybody will bother making converters for the small tv`s
and it`ll most likely be awhile for the digital portables.
All of this is untrue. As a matter of fact, I know of no portable TVs without a digital receiver.
Best Buy, portable digital TV, under $120. link (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=ISYNSQBFJSO23KC4D3NFAFQ?skuId=8275993&type=product&id=1171058029451)
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All of this is untrue. As a matter of fact, I know of no portable TVs without a digital receiver.
The AC/DC/battery powered black and white portable we keep for emergencies is almost 30 years old, and has knob tuners for VHF and UHF. I doubt any part of it is digital.
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All of this is untrue. As a matter of fact, I know of no portable TVs without a digital receiver.
The AC/DC/battery powered black and white portable we keep for emergencies is almost 30 years old, and has knob tuners for VHF and UHF. I doubt any part of it is digital.
Guess I should have said "recent portable TVs" or "portable TVs currently being sold." Both of those would have been more correct. But you should have been able to figure it out, since Kimba made the claim that no portable TVs currently being sold are digital, when in fact AFAIK they all are digital.
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But you should have been able to figure it out...
Oh, I knew what you meant.
Still gonna hate having to get a new portable TV, though. Got a lot of good service out of that one.
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wow
that`s cool
honestly,I never expected a digital portable to be made so soon
the price is not bad
and about the regular sets still working
about the majority of people I know has them.
remember unlike the current models these thing are design to last.
all my sets are at least 15 yrs old and still working fine
it`s just more tricky to install new devides on them.
I have to route everything throught the vcr,since the tv doesn`t have those connectors
I have a theory most of the olds sets replaced were still working when they got chucked.
unlike most machines a tv set is a seriously reliable machine.
strangely I have no confidance these new models are that good though
could be because every sale person said your not expected have a tv for tens years anymore.
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could be because every sale person said your not expected have a tv for tens years anymore.
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I seriously doubt if most salespeople know a thing about this at all.
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Here's to 2008.
Hoping for the best, expecting the worst.
:)
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Happy New Year 2008 everyone! I'm away on a mini vacation, as New Year's Day was my birthday. Touch base with you all soon.
Good year ahead, I feel it! My New Year's wish to all.....
Struggles will probably continue to be strikingly complex, however; but if we ignite a more creative side of life through art and music, there should be brighter days ahead.
Cindy
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As I understand it, analog signals are not the only problem. The signals will be digital, and they will not be broadcast on the current frequencies. That is to say, your TV will not work because the channels you can get ON THE AIR will no longer be used for public broadcasting. This does not affect you if you get cable, but it does affect those of us who chose not to pay for TV service. Right now, I get analog signals on the VHF and UHF frequencies my local stations use. In a year, those signals will stop.
Digital converters will allow televisions to receive digital signals through the air, and then convert them for use on conventional TVs. (I imagine this will be similar to the way a cable box works now.) The signals will NOT come in on the standard VHF/UHF stations we are used to, but with a converter that will not be an issue. Without a converter, your old TV will be useless except to play videos and DVDs on.
What WILL be an issue, however, is the difference between digital and analog signals. With analog signals, if you get a poor signal you get "snow" or other picture problems. That is annoying, but at least you still get to see the show. With digital signals, you will either get a perfect picture or none at all. If you have an unobstructed line of sight from the tower, your signal will be correct, otherwise, you will get no picture. Having seen a lot of technoglitches with the increasing use of digital technology, I suspect there will be a lot of video-audio sync problems and the like. But theoretically digital signals are an all-or-nothing proposition.
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Happy New Year 2008 everyone! I'm away on a mini vacation, as New Year's Day was my birthday. Touch base with you all soon.
Good year ahead, I feel it! My New Year's wish to all.....
Struggles will probably continue to be strikingly complex, however; but if we ignite a more creative side of life through art and music, there should be brighter days ahead.
Cindy
Happy birthday!
As for a good year ahead, I think it's all what we make of it.
At least I hope that's the case - I read my new year horoscope in the newspaper in Jordan, and it said that I was going to have no money, have no luck in business or employment, lose all of my friends, have disasterous family problems, and suffer from heart, lung and intestinal problems. (Seriously - that's what it said. LOL.)
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Henny!!
Oh my gosh!
Well, perhaps that's your horoscope April fools joke.
You'll have a great year..."as great as we make it" is right on...My friends just returned from Jordan. Gorgeous photos were taken, indeed. They spent months in the area and visited the Holy Land.
Thank you for the B-day wish!
So tonight is the Iowa big wingdig!
In fact they start in about an hour!