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Another Mitsubishi, but way bigger this time!
The now retired superintendent of schools for Lake Forest called and said he has a big screen tv he wanted to give away, he lives in Fort Sheridan so I just said yes without even asking what it was. I went over there yesterday and picked this up, it's a 2001 Mitsubishi model WT-46809. It works perfectly and a Denon 5.1 system came with it that I didn't know about. I'm glad I didn't buy a big tv, free ones are better The picture is very bright and the contrast and brightness are at half or a little under. It also looks good with a regular DTV box, I'd like to find one that receives HD. What one would you guys recommend? Sorry about the glare, I need to get curtains
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I wish I got RT on Directv. RT rocks, I never thought I would be saying the Russia Today new station was less biased than the big corporate propaganda US news outlets.
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You can use a Samsung SIR TS360 or SIR-TS160 . They are cheap and plentiful. They are a direct TV receiver that has an actual HD over the air tuner built in(up to 1080I). You do NOT need Direct TV service but you will need the card to turn off the dish antenna in the menu.(any direct TV card will do) Once turned off, you do not need the card anymore.(you can borrow one for a half hour or so) It also tunes in cable along with the HD over the air at the same time. It switches between the 2 automatically. 2(cable), 2.1(OTA), 2.2(OTA), 3(cable) etc
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Thanks for the news sources you have mentioned. My Cox cable here in San Diego appears to not have ANY of these.....and I am a bit tired of spoonfed news with flower gardens and Dachshound races.
I wanna see it "raw" and without stupid Dem/Rep bias, global warming agendas and sensationalism.... then process it by myself. I used to watch NHK and BBC when I lived in Hong Kong. The "local" HK news would have been RTHK back then...and was sorta the same bias and rose colored glasses you see HERE. I catch the BBC every few days here if I think about it. Always more informed when watching something from NOT here in the states.
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I have a Samsung SIRT-451 and a Zenith HDV-420 that get HD and have component outputs. They would work also for the Mitsu.
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I took a look inside the set today, I was rather surprised to see almost nothing but Nichicon capacitors and other high quality parts inside. This thing may last another 11 years, at least Given the CRTs don't die
Also, thanks for more DTV box suggestions. I've never looked for a box that wasn't "coupon eligible"
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Cox has a BBC America channel.....and at SOME point they run "actual" BBC news. I just sometimes catch it because I might have been watching TopGear the night before.
I'm an odd TV viewer. I have the TV ALWAYS on.....but usually just on "something not annoying"...so I pretty rarely plan my day around the TV, or turn it on a certain channel at a certain time. I'll have it on Discovery...until I see a SHARK (HATE "shark week"), and will then search for something NOT annoying. Usually it's History, Animal Planet or one of the Science things like TLC. I think the only thing I "know" is on every night is that Big Bang thing with the nerds is on after my "local" news. I do tend to watch those guys...but pretty sure I've now seen all of 'em :-P I'm not sure quite when the BBC America has the news on...but I know it's nightly at least.
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Good luck with the Mitsu. They have their faults.
I bought my mom a 46" Mitsu projection set and it ran about 5 years before problems started happening. I've replaced about 35 Nichison capacitors... most were leaking, and some were just discolored and bloated. The set plays on... Also removed blobs of glue that held wires in place along the PC board... Over the years, this white glue will react with the board surface and cause electrical problems. Mom is happy. It's working. |
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Whenever I think of international news, I think of this. You have to admit that it's true
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjU_...eature=related
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The better HD over-the-air set-top tuners were the ones built by LG; some were combination DirecTV/OTA tuners. Models include the Zenith 420 and 520 (HD-SAT520?), Hughes HTL-HD, Sony 200 and 300 (SAT-HD200/300?), and LG 3100/3200/3410 (LST-3100A, etc.?).
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The closest I come to getting BBC news on cable (Time Warner) here in northeastern Ohio is a newscast called, IIRC, "BBC World News" on PBS World (one of the subchannels of the PBS affiliate in Cleveland). I have the lowest tier of cable service above broadcast channels only. The higher levels of service may have direct feeds from the BBC; in fact, I think they do have "BBC America" on one of the digital tiers, but I don't care to subscribe to those higher tiers since they require the use of a cable box -- even with flat screens that already have full-range (NTSC, ATSC, 8-VSB, clear QAM) tuners.
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How about BBC World news off of FTA satellite? According to LyngSat it should be available "in the clear" on Galaxy 13*:
http://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/uk...-Americas.html jr *C band, so the usual small FTA ku dish set-up won't work. |
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