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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I'd hang on to that CRT set if it did not fail catastrophically. CRT sets are easier to fix, tend to have better parts availability, and tend to last longer before/between repairs. A fair percent of flat screens don't out live the extended warranty, and often before the end of that warranty non-generic parts become NLA.
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Oops. I forced the issue by e-wasting it earlier today. I can probably get it back next Saturday, the trailer was pretty empty.
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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
There is still such a thing as television DXing. I live 30 miles from Cleveland, within a mile of Lake Erie. Using just an indoor DTV antenna, I can receive stations from Detroit with excellent pictures when the conditions are right.
TV DXing is not what it once was; that is, now we must scan through every channel our HDTVs receive in order to find distant stations, since, as was noted, most DTV tuners do not allow for manual keypad entry (from the remote) of individual stations to scan lists--you must accept what the tuner finds, then delete unwanted channels as needed. (All DTVs do allow entry of any receivable channel in a given area via the remote's keypad; I am referring to adding or deleting channels to or from the scan list using the keypad.)
It would be nice if DTV tuners did have a manual channel scan list entry mode; perhaps in a few years the design of these tuners may be improved enough so that the tuners not only allow for manual channel entry to a scan list, but are sensitive enough that the TVs in which they are installed may be used for OTA reception in any signal area. As it stands today, unfortunately, some HDTVs, especially some of the cheap no-name makes (e. g. Polaroid, Craig, etc.), have tuners that do not work well at all for OTA in anything other than very strong to near-suburban reception areas; they may have issues with receiving cable signals as well.
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A few years ago I got channel 2 North Platte from here in western NY, (almost 1200 miles away as crow flies). Same thing happened the following summer. Same network as Buffalo's channel 2 so I didn't notice anything until commercials. I'm getting concerned that I might already have the technology and it peaked in 2008:
The Zenith and DigitalStream allow you to put in "RF" channels and the Zenith displays signal strength of whatever is there. The RCA seems pretty stable against dropouts, the Pal Plus has great prog guide but it gets upset and paralyzed if you move the antenna and it can't find previously-found channels. It also has huge lag when you switch channels. I think the Zenith is "LG" so maybe "LG" DTV's have decent tuners?
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