Is it possible to obtain a wood-trimmed flat-screen TV?

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@commasense

Hey, if you’re happy with it, that’s all that matters. I only glanced at the review. My main concern was that maybe a salesman had told you you were getting HD.

Enjoy.

Actually the Radio Shack people were very honest about that part. Emphasized that it was not HD. All I cared about for the price is that it could do the best it could do with an HD signal.

And it does an awfully good job.

Since I have bought a couple of pull down screens (Nice that you can easily move the Cinego from room to room so easily) --------I am all set someday if I really want to spend $10,000 for a true 1080 HD front projection unit.

And hopefully, in the next few years, that $10,000 will drop tremendously.

All analog will be gone in 3 years.

Everyone will have to have HDTV tuners if they want to watch anything at all. I have a feeling that when millions of HDTV tuners will have to be sold, and TV systems to match-------what costs beaucoup de bucks today will cost 10% of that in the future.

And I am all ready.

[Gary_Robson]

Argent Towers, I recommend contacting a good local cabinetmaker or two and getting a quote for a new enclosure. Then you can change shape, size, color, and whatever else you choose.

Unless you’re going with the veneer approach, which should work well unless you have rounded corners.

@ombre3

All analog will be gone in 3 years.

Yeah, yeah. I’ve heard that before. Incidentally, even when all of our existing TV stations switch to digital, analog still won’t go away. The FCC will relicense the frequencies to college, public, and amateur broadcasters.

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@InvisibleWombat

Argent Towers, I recommend contacting a good local cabinetmaker or two and getting a quote for a new enclosure. Then you can change shape, size, color, and whatever else you choose.

Unless you’re going with the veneer approach, which should work well unless you have rounded corners.

Yeah, yeah. I’ve heard that before. Incidentally, even when all of our existing TV stations switch to digital, analog still won’t go away. The FCC will relicense the frequencies to college, public, and amateur broadcasters.

True—

They keep putting off the demise of analog. If I remember right it was supposed to happen in 2006. OOPS–that means now doesn’t it?

Latest deadline is 2009. And talk about recompensating all those poor people out there with analog for free HD tuners-------like $50 a shot to add HD tuners for all those obsolete analog TV sets (which analog sets are so cheap to buy today --Wonder why?)----

—supposed to cost the government billions to do that-----buy HD tuners for all those poor people.

Of course the govament will rake in many more billions selling off the old analog frequency for whoever has the cash to buy it and has something in mind to use it for.

So it will probably be a wash.

(but maybe the government ahead just a trifle bit on the deal)

[commasense]

@ombre3

Everyone will have to have HDTV tuners if they want to watch anything at all. I have a feeling that when millions of HDTV tuners will have to be sold, and TV systems to match-------what costs beaucoup de bucks today will cost 10% of that in the future.

I agree with you that costs will come down.

But just as a nitpick, once the transition to digital comes, not all broadcasts will be HD. There will be SDTV, Standard Defintion channels as well, with quality about the same as today’s analog TV.

@InvisibleWombat

Yeah, yeah. I’ve heard that before. Incidentally, even when all of our existing TV stations switch to digital, analog still won’t go away. The FCC will relicense the frequencies to college, public, and amateur broadcasters.

Do you have a cite for that? I’ve read that the frequencies will be reallocated, but I hadn’t heard that they would be used for analog TV broadcasts.