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Originally Posted by electroking
Why in the world should I be sad? I'm getting the clearest picture ever on my
1977 vintage JVC-built Electrohome TV, and I now have a remote control that
will do everything but turn the set ON of OFF.
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I agree. I had a 1999-model RCA CTC185 set for eleven years (still have it for standby use), and thought the picture was excellent when the cable system in my area (Time Warner) recently went digital. Then I bought a 19" flat-panel HDTV set (Insignia, made by Osram Sylvania) just under three weeks ago. Wow, what a difference -- I never dreamed that a TV picture could be so clear and finely detailed, to say nothing of the extra channels I can now receive (two retro-TV ones, to name a couple -- there are others, such as a weather radar channel which is a subchannel of Cleveland's NBC affiliate). The only thing I don't like is having to reset the aspect ratio every once in a while when changing channels; however, it's no big deal -- I just have to pull out my set's original remote (I use a GE universal with the TV and my DVD player and VCR) and press the "zoom" button until the picture is correctly proportioned on the screen.
I find it unusual that your TV's remote can operate every function of the set except on/off power switching. Is the remote a universal one that has a power button? Almost all of them have (or should have) this functionality; when I had digital cable on my RCA set, the cable box in fact had such an outlet, with the remote programmed to switch power to that outlet on or off. Even if you have a cable box or an ATSC->NTSC converter box, its remote should be configurable for TV power switching. If there is a switched AC outlet at the rear of the box, plug your TV's power cord into it and you should now be able to switch the latter on and off from the remote.