Mike Easter wrote:
> VanguardLH wrote:
>> Jack Gillis wrote:
>
>>> determine if the outlet in that room has a signal on it?
>
>> Besides, if you aren't
>> putting a TV in the room to use it there then why do you care if the
>> outlet is connected? What are you going to do now that you can't do
>> later if you ever put a TV in that room?
>
> Heh.
>
> How about this. He just now started thinking about it. He doesn't know
> if he really wants to put a TV in that room. He especially doesn't know
> if he really wants to buy another TV. He certainly doesn't know what
> kind of other TV he wants to buy if he /did/ buy another TV -- a big
> fancy one? a little bitty one? something in between?
The assumption is the OP has no friends (from whom he could borrow a
small TV). Or that he has never heard of renting. I've heard that
Goodwill has a refund policy (don't know how long) so maybe he could go
there to get a used TV as a tester. There is another technique but I
won't mention it since it is unfair to retailers (but this statement is
itself a hint).
> You can still buy analog TV sets (in the US) for a short while and
> sometimes you can get a good deal on them. Then soon you won't be able
> to buy them anymore legally.
The condition that *broadcasters* switch to digital transmission puts no
restriction on anyone *selling* an old analog TV (one manufactured and
imported before March 2007). Fact is, there might be some damn good
deals around February or March 2009 on analog TVs that include the
converter for free so retailers can empty their inventory (see the
article link shown below). Also, the FCC is only regulating that
BROADCAST television use digital encoding, not cable providers. Your
analog TV will still work on cable. I have no intention on buying a new
TV until my current analog TV dies because I get my TV service via
cable, not via over-the-air radio transmission to a set of rabbit ears.
I haven't use rabbit ears or otehr antennae for over a decade. Cable is
not over-the-air broadcast TV so they aren't included in the FCC
regulation. There is nothing outlawing the sale of analog TVs. There
is nothing that impinges on cable TV providers to continue providing
analog TV service. The whole point of DTV (Digital TV) is to recover
radio frequencies for other use so it can be resold.
Don't know why you even brought up analog vs. digital TV *transmission*.
Has nothing to do with cabling up your home. Read
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/dtv/. Interesting is that DTV won't have the same
range as analog TV so users outside range will still have to buy
antennae; read
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/te...rssnyt&emc=rss.
Apparently the FCC has no concern for those not living in a metropolis.
Since the OP is concerned over a cable outlet, the FCC regulation about
DTV isn't even an issue.
> I've been thinking about buying a flatscreen analog TV, but I wouldn't
> buy one for that room if the cable outlet didn't work.
So you also would not buy a new TV because there was *no* cable outlet
in the room where you wanted to use that new TV? Geez, how hard is it
to cut out a hole in the sheetrock with a razor knife alongside a stud,
nail in a plastic box, and string a cable and put an outlet into that
box? There are still lots of houses, apartments, or other domiciles
around where there is not a cable outlet in every room. If you don't
want to do the wiring or pay to have someone to modify that home that
you chose unwisely based on the critical criteria that it must have a
cable outlet in every room then go get an X10 or other wireless video
hub.
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