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Originally Posted by andy
The main thing I don't like about digital TV is that in a fringe area you'll be totally cut off from broadcast TV. It's all or nothing. If you get a snowy picture now you probably won't see anything in digital. I also wonder when there will be a portable battery operated digital TV. It seems like a ginat step backwards that the only digital TVs are expensive, large and heavy.
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I had the same qualms myself for people in fringe areas, with digitial, you either GET THE SIGNAL OR YOU DON'T, there is no inbetween. At least with regular analogue TV, you can still get a watchible picture with some snow. Count my in on the question of portable battery powered HDTV's, I was wondering the same thing a I was playing with my Casio TV-30 B&W "pocket TV" from 1987. I do have a 1966 (give or take) Sony portable 9 or 10 inch B&W TV, I guess to make it battery powered and portable, I'll need an HDTV converter box and use a voltage inverter.
Call me weird, but I think my 1982 Zenith has a good picture rivalling many HDTV's, then again, my eyes are shot, terminally nearsighted (-6.25 and -7.00 diopters) along with astigmatism.
