On 26-04-11 6:33 PM, August Abolins -> All wrote:
 AA> It's probably a good thing that I held off on purchasing an external
 AA> atsc tuner to support my old crt tv. The tv has started to "bleed"
 AA> colour on the horizonal. It's not heavily pronounced but when there is a
 AA> really bright element on the scene, the whole area across the tv will be
 AA> lighter. The same thing happens with really dark elements.. the whole
 AA> area across will be darker. This result makes watching
"perfect" DVDs
 AA> pitiful.

 AA> So.. it looks like I will need to dive in for a digital tv VERY shortly.

 AA> Meanwhile, I am really ticked off at the reduced screen area when having
 AA> to select a new widescreen tv. Coming from being accustomed to 4:3, a
 AA> 30" tv provides about 18" on the vertical scale. A
30" widescreen only
 AA> has a 15" viewing height. I have to purchase at least a
32" if I want to
 AA> maintain the 18" height that I like. Widescreen on my existing
30" 4:3
 AA> is reduced to 14"!

 AA> Not sure how I will be able to incorporate my existing hdd/dvd tv
 AA> tuner/recorder into the mix. It has S-video Out, and component video
 AA> output/input.

 AA> What solutions are any of you using to record tv when the tv has the
 AA> tuner built in? Much like in the days of VHS we would bypass the tv's
 AA> tuner and use the recorder's tuner.

I just got Shaw (our local cable provider) to install digital boxes over
here - with those installed, the old VCR and DVD-Recorder continue to be
usable with a trick... the digital box needs to be tuned into the channel
to be recorded, with the old boxes programmed to record on Channel 3 -
regardless of the actual channel needed.

That is a clear decrease in functionality, as it's no longer possible to
use them to record different shows on different channels unless someone is
here to manually change the channel on the digital box as needed.

Luckily, a hard drive-based PVR was included (no charge) in the deal, so
that gets around that limitation.

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