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Originally Posted by walterbeers
Yea, that a nice set to add to your collection. Works too, and picture looks good. A few minor scratches, but that can be expected for something over 20 years old. It's just too bad there is no analog stations any more, and everything needs a converter. Even so, it can be a good little TV to put into a kitchen or bedroom, etc. I just think it's such a waste that all of these older working sets are being junked, since analog is no more. Of course were in a throw away society.
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Analog TV may be nearly dead (except for a few small UHF stations), but that's the way it is, although I don't like the idea. However, I did finally break down and get a Roku player for my flat screen TV a few months ago, and have never looked back. (I kept my cable service, since that is the only way I can receive local TV with the Roku; this is just how their billing system works.) The reception is much better than cable, since the Roku (and most other streaming video players) works with video streams only, not with RF signals; cable TV always compresses and otherwise butchers the signals just so they can add more channels.
As to all the older TVs being junked, yes, that is a waste, since these sets often have plenty of life left in them and will work perfectly well using a cable box, OTA converter, or a streaming video player, to say nothing of a VCR or DVD/Blu-ray player. I have two perfectly good analog CRT TVs here that still work well on cable (Time Warner hasn't yet gotten to the point where its cable service won't work without a cable box, but that day is coming, I'm sure), and will use one if anything should happen to my flat screen set. I tested both with the Roku player and they work just fine.
