Five Things You Need to Know About Digital TV Coupons

rabbit ears work JUST FINE. I get just a clear a picture as can be. No one can tell the difference. You have to know how to adjust the TV.

tsdennison says:
Was this national forget to take our meds day???

LOL tsdennison! Must be! LOL.

Seriously though, Lots of people still have the older TV's and are not subscribing to the satelite dishes or the pay channels...I know I'm a glass half FULL kinda girl, but perhaps the government is just trying to protect the people who can't afford new TV's from getting ripped off and monopolized by the stores and cable companies. That's all. Why be so paranoid? Personally, I think most people in this country are all set to go with their TV's already. If we don't have the old rabbit ear TV's, and we have a TV that was purchased in the last 5 years as well as pay channels and the like, are we all set to go? Do we still need to buy a converter box? Just wondering...

The government uses the media to their advantage.This is the only way they can broadcast to us what they want us to believe.Without the media they wouldn't get as far as they have become.The media is like a vehicle to the government.This is much bigger than you could ever imagine.

freebyrd--the way I understand it, you need a converter box if you dont have and hdtv and you dont have cable/sat. what the box does is make it so that your tv can read the digital signal. some geek out there please correct me if I am wrong. As for me, I am certainly not going to go out and purchase all new tvs and I dont pay the cable game, so I would need a converter box but the only way I will have one is if someone wants to give me one. I refuse to pay for it. Cant justify it as an expense.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/washington/15cnd-scotus.html?ex=1358139600&en=1ec5f0e4456a15b6&ei=5118&partner=rssaol&emc=rss
I thought this to be a little bit interesting as well.

Elaine WTG ^5^5^5^5---high 5's lol For Telling big mouth Daphne whats what,with a name like Daphne should tell it all,probably a brit.

Ron

This is a perfect example of what happens
when you let the governmant, on ANY level,
take complete control of a program.
DO YOU STILL WANT A GOVERNMENT
CONTROLED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. ?? If they
get a hold of that, god help us all.!!

oh heck, if your house (roof) can see the southern sky, you can get direct tv. circuit city has it, costco has it, and many other places do too so it's easy to buy. plus, you can call 'em on their 1-800 number and order it there. this is satellite tv so all you need is one of their small dish antenna contraptions stuck on your roof or in your yard. cable doesn't come where we live yet but we've had direct tv for about 10 years now. cable is always sick, overpriced, and what you do get ain't worth the monthly money fee paid. we have one direct tv dish antenna on the roof and two receivers in the house...one for each tv. you can get the simple plan with direct tv that costs about $30 a month or you can add other viewing packages to it for more money each month. we have the local abc, nbc, cbs, fox, etc. package, movie channel package, disney and other general g-rated package, etc. and it costs about $113 a month. we don't get the sports package for football, basketball, hockey, etc. because many games are shown on the local stations or on some of the other package stations that we have. you can even get the porno stations if you're a sicko. we're not sicko's so no, we don't have it. have no kids (only furry ones, 24 horses, cats, and dogs...was 25 up until yesterday, one of the very old kennel dog's died sometime in the afternoon)but i like cartoons so this is why we have that package. now, we just upgraded the system in the living room in the last week. old direct tv receiver doesn't get high-def, this new one does. we still have an old regular bubble screen (convex) Toshiba 35-in. tv and even though it still works great, my hubby keeps telling me i should have a new 60-in. high-def LCD flat skinny tv or plasma tv and give the Toshiba to GoodWill, whoever charity. this is because i have a $3,000 Infocus Projector that hangs from the ceiling in that room and a very big roll down/roll up Gray Wolf screen. yep, the Infocus shows in high-def (DVD's or tv)so i just got around to buying a Toshiba high-def DVD Player. up until then, i have another DVD player that plays VHS movies and DVD's...but i never used it much. this is because i have a Bose Home Theater Sound System that also plays DVD movies, not high-def however. it's so hard to keep up on this crap, it keeps evolving so fast. sooo, now to be able to hear the sound in a high-def DVD movie, i had to get a new Bose Home Theater Sound System that can be hooked up to the Toshiba high-def DVD player and tv. are you able to follow all this? confusing, huh? the older Bose System cost $1,300 and this new high-def one cost $2,500. the old system could play DVD's, the new one doesn't. strange how it costs more but it's because it does high-def sound for high-def DVD's or high-def tv. oh yeah, we have to pay $5.00 more each month to get the high-def package from direct tv now too. can you hear all the money falling out of our pockets here? makes ya wanna cry, huh? i think i have it all straight now even though it sounds like i created a snake's nest. took out old regular $99.00 direct tv monitor, got new high-def one for $99.00, took out old $1,300 Bose Theater Sound System and put in new $2,500 Bose Theater Sound System, and put in new $300 Toshiba high-def DVD Player. Old and yet like new regular Toshiba DVD Player will be given to GoodWill when we haul the old big Toshiba TV there. the Infocus was replaced about a year ago...i had the $1,500 one and when they came out with the one that's high-def, i took it back, got a refund, stuck $1,500 more into the salesman's hands, and got the $3,000 one. to get the system fully operating now as it should with all things being high-def, i only need a new high-def tv. sony isn't making other than high-def LCD tv's now so rear projection high-def is already outdated. all manufacturer's will follow Sony so don't buy a projection high-
def if you haven't yet, it's a waste of money and you'll be sorry. prices have come down a lot on the 50-inch and larger high-def LCD tv's so it looks like we'll have to fork out about $3,500 to $4,500 for a 60-inch one if we bought right now. yes, this hurts!! due to not wanting it hung from a wall, i also have to get a long short to the floor tv table to set the big flat tv on...and it has to have glass doors to keep dust off of the covered shelves with the Direct Tv Receiver, Bose Receiver, and Toshiba high-def DVD Player on. did i forget anybody for the shelves? the table will cost around $400 and up depending on what's available that doesn't look like the legs will break off once the big tv is set on it. i'm really glad we did this step by step instead of having to fork all that money out at one time but it still is a sin at what these stupid things sell for nowadays. i'm going to wait another 6 months or so before we get the big 60-inch tv...it might drop a few hundred bucks in price by then. the old Bose Theater Sound System will not be given away...it is just moving to the LazyBoy room where the other tv is and it'll be hooked up to that and to a stereo system in that room also. the tv in there is a 27-in. flat screen Sony, just plain, not high-def. it works great for sports games and if not, the Infocus can be turned on in the livingroom and the game can be seen on the huge pull down screen. a LCD or plasma high-def tv the size that this screen is would cost well over $60,000. all in all, i think if you want really big screen, get the Infocus Projector System, everything is super sized. anyway, i hope this helped anyone that's wondering what they have to do to upgrade their tv viewing experiences...but you can do it much cheaper than we did. stores now sell high-def LCD tv's in the 32-in. size for under $400 now, you don't need an expensive Bose Sound System, you can buy a Sony, Panasonic, or other good name company system for just a few hundred bucks. high-def DVD Players usually go for around $350 and up but they go on sale all the time, this is how i got my Toshbia for three hundred bucks. i know that many have the old tv's like my big Toshiba is but they're about ready to die anyday now so i think it's dumb to buy a converter box even with a $40 discount. toss that $40 into a pile of a few more twenty dollar bills and hit Circuit City, Best Buys, Costco, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, etc. i bet you can get a high-def LCD tv in like 27-inches for a bit over $200.00. then get direct tv and get the cheapest package first, add on as money permits, and if you really need to see in high-def, then pay them $5.00 more a month for it. personally, i think high-def stinks and so does wide-screen...people don't even look human to me...they all look like they're made out of wax. funniest thing of all is that we don't watch tv all that much, mostly news and a few movies. only own two high-def DVD movies due to them coming free with the DVD Player. Gave hundreds of VHS movies to GoodWill near Xmas, have kept the collection of regular DVD's that we have, and i really don't know if i'm going to buy many new high-def DVD's. direct-tv has so many movies on their stations that i can easily wait until they show the most recent box office hits, they always do a few months after they hit the theaters. well, good luck in your future tv viewing!! don't go nuts trying to figure out what to do because within a year, what you have will be outdated again.

HEY PEOPLE, IF YOU HAVE A SET THAT NEEDS THE COMNVERTER BOX TO READ THE DIGITAL SIGNALS AND YOU DON'T BUY THE CONVERTER BOX...GUESS WHAT? YOUR TV WON'T PICK UP ZILCH ANYMORE. GOT IT? YOU'LL HAVE NOTHING BUT SNOW (FUZZ) ON THE SCREEN FOREVERMORE. AMEN. AND PLEASE STOP WITH THE KNOCKS ABOUT CONGRESS...THE DEMOCRAP'S OWN THE SHOW NOW, THE REPUBLICANS DON'T...SO IT'S YOUR BELOVED DEMOCRAP'S THAT ARE SCREWING YOU NOW. GOT IT? YOU WANTED IT SO NOW BE HAPPY WITH THE POO-POO THEY'RE DISHIN' OUT. I WANT A REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT, IT'S THE ONLY WAY THAT AMERICA WILL NOT FALL BY THE WAYSIDE AND DIE.

Jeez jossy, sounds like you've got more money than sense. Why would you be willing to spend that kind of money on stupid Tv? That kind of "logic" eludes me

Wilma, perhaps you should read these comments from the beginning and educate yourself on the facts. You might find out it is not, and never has been, Bush who is in control of the issue. Oh, that's right you're a typical lib and would rather not be confused with the facts. But the fact is your precious libs running congress now could have killed this changeover to digital at any time since the last election yet they have NOT. What does that tell you, huh? They approve of it! What a shock! Instead they wasted the country's time on useless witch-hunts.

Are you also blissfully unaware that the approval rating for the DEMOCRATE controlled congress is significantly LOWER than the president's rating? And you want a new president from that lot of liberal dim bulbs? And it's way down since the Dems took over. Of course you weren't.

This has to be the biggest "who cares" changeover in the history of the country. Sure, a few technophiles are salivating at the prospect of digital and HD TV, but most people could care less. Is it really worth it to be able to be able to more clearly see the umpteen wrinkles on the hags on "Desperate Housewives?" It will not be a pretty sight, trust me. Not to mention the tearing of the picture when the scenes change too quickly for the digital methods of interpolation to keep up with. It gives us more broadcast channels? Look at how few of the channels on UHF are actually in use and tell me we actually needed more channels.

The truth is people did not care about a better picture when watching that little TV in their dorm rooms or while doing chores. The technogeeks may be having orgasms but most people never gave a big flying fig about it all.

The changeover to color was the greatest thing to happen to TV. Compared to that, this is nothing as far as the consumer is concerned. To most it is just a hassel and much ado about very little.

I've been following this whole DTV transition fiasco since this past fall. There are going to be a lot of confused and angry people when February 2009 rolls around.