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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV
Jeff, I do not understand why a discussion of how to set up an old TV's tuner drifted off into comments about whether infomercial stations should have switched to ATSC, but I do need to respond to two comments you made that do not match anything I have seen while studying a lot of recent equipment:
1) Flat panel HDTV sets do NOT require any kind of calibration at all. Most of them will provide a far superior picture in almost every way, with far fewer picture defects, than just about ANY CRT TV set sold to the public ever did. Also, unlike the way CRT sets were sold in recent years, LCD TV sets do not come "out of the box" with settings that are likely to destroy the display. (CRT sets are often left in the maximum-contrast setting that was the default for many years, and that will kill the tube rapidly, as many AK members have experienced.)
2) I have not seen a flat-panel TV without built-in speakers in any store recently, except maybe a few specialty high-end displays that will not be bought by average consumers. EVERY flat-panel TV at a Wal-mart, Sears, Best Buy or similar store will have built-in speakers and a very decent picture out of the box.
The chance that buying a new flat-panel TV will "require" a home-theater audio system that could lead to being evicted after two nights of movie viewing is just plain absurd. I'm sorry, but I have no better/nicer way to put this.
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I am very sorry as well that you disagree with me on almost everything I said in my post, and seem to think my comments about running a home-theater sound system at full volume will get a person evicted from an apartment are "absurd".
Do you live in your own home or in an apartment? If the latter, I don't think you should challenge anyone's remarks (mine or anyone else's) regarding this subject. I live on the first floor of a two-story, 12-unit apartment building and cannot make loud noises at any time; in fact, the village in which I live has a noise ordinance as well that prohibits loud noises anywhere in the village after ten o'clock p.m. If I lived on the second floor of this building I would be walking on eggshells as far as even listening to my stereo system, let alone my television, through its speakers is concerned, for fear of incurring the wrath of the other tenants or even the landlord.
I am not trying to win popularity contests with my posts to this or any other AudioKarma forum. If you agree with what I have to say, great, but if not, please do not condemn my remarks publicly as you just did. If you must disagree with anything in my posts from now on, I suggest you send me a private message containing your gripes.