Repair Culture

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Burton" <aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Repair Culture > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "TeoZ" <teoz at neo.rr.com> > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:12 PM > Subject: Re: Repair Culture > > > >> Every so often things change. Your old analog 4:3 TV might be reliable >> but >> you need something digital now and widescreen. >> > > Sorry, not quite true. > > I bought a little box that gives my good old CRT TV digital channels via > the > SCART socket, so no widescreen TV for me yet :) (unless you were

Sure you can buy a converter box (I have a couple collecting dust) but you don't get HDTV with those so you can either lose much of the broadcast or get stuck with a bunch of black on the screen. Not that many people have widescreen CRT TV's. The point I was making is going widescreen and

were big enough changes to warrant switching over. Its the same as the big shift from tape to CD and VHS to DVD (laserdisc was too pricey) , big

improvement to switch over even if the old gear still works. Some people will say that DVD to Blueray isn't that big of an improvement and stick

DVD until something new and groundbreaking shows up. I didn't give up my stereo until Dolby Digital DTS came around (the older surround sound pro logic etc didn't really do much for me).