Posted by Larry Caldwell on 12/11/05 20:08

In article <439BA540.558E@tcfreenet.invalid>, calguire@tcfreenet.invalid
(Tony Calguire) says...

> TVs, for the last 60 years, have been sold with tuners inside of them.
> It was a foregone conclusion that the device being sold could actually
> receive the signals it was intended to display. Although apparently, it
> was not as foregone as I had thought, because the consumer electronics
> industry has managed to convince so many of you that it's now "cool" to
> have separate boxes.

The digital conversion will make OTA signals unavailable to a large
portion of the USA. Digital cable will require a STB, and satellite
programming provides its own tuner. Most DVD players don't even have a
RF output. When over half the customer base would never USE a HDTV
tuner, what is the rationale for including one by default? I certainly
don't want one.

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