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Originally Posted by drh4683
Typical good working RCA has a near perfect picture! (For whatever reason, my camera makes the set look like its out of convergence. It converged great!) You dont need HDTV with when you have an old RCA TV!
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Congratulations on getting that RCA "Bradfield" set working so well. It may be the resolution of my computer monitor, but I couldn't see any misconvergence in your set's picture (or the effect of it, as you say your camera causes). My RCA (Thomson) 19" color set, which I purchased new in 1999, makes a good picture as well; when these new sets are working as they should they work great. I understand Thomson has finally licked the OB tuner problem in their newest sets (actually in the last couple years), by getting the tuner off the main PCB and mounting it separately, in another section of the cabinet. I had mine repaired for a tuner-related problem several months after I bought the set, but the technician did a complete resolder of the ground points around the shield as well as correcting the problem I called him for. That was all the set needed. It has now been some time (I forget whether it's two, three years
) since the repairs were made; the TV still works like a champ on cable, VCR and DVD, with the picture absolutely excellent, even if it is only 19 or 20 inches (the warranty info for this set refers to it as a "nineteen-twenty inch mono" monitor/receiver, so it may be a 20-incher after all).
I agree with you as to HDTV (I intend to keep my set as well even after the digital transition--I'll just have Comcast put in a high-definition cable box when the time comes), although I do wonder, since you don't have cable, what you'll do with all your sets once the analog stations are taken off the air at the end of next year (if we can believe what the FCC is telling us about the transition from analog to digital--personally, I don't).
For that matter, have you finished putting up that giant TV antenna farm you said you were going to install when you moved from Downers Grove to where you are now? I looked up Batavia, IL on the Internet (Google) the other day, and found out that you are over 40 miles from Chicago. I don't know how far that places you from the city's TV stations, but in any case I bet your antennas are huge deep-fringe systems.