TV: Buy Your Own Box
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Why is the government paying for our consumer electronics? A contrary opinion on the voucher program for mandatory analog TV conversion. In Gadget Lab.
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You have a fancy home-entertainment system that can record and play TV programs, DVDs, show digital photos, and tap into your collection of digital music.
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Blog: Consumers can buy a high definition disc player that plays everything, or they can save money and buy separates.
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Television used to be dismissed by elitists as the idiot box, a sea of mediocrity that drowns thought and intelligent debate. Now people who ignore its pools and eddies of excellence do so at their own peril.
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Apple, Amazon.com, and Vizio take a plunge into the consumer electronics world.
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It's good, but not that good 3GSM The folks behind the Slingbox aren't worried by traditional broadcasters getting into video on demand because, they claim, their boxes offer a far more personalised experience.â¦
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Blog: New bill backed by parents' groups includes proposal that cable and satellite TV operators let subscribers buy a "family tier" of programming or opt out of most channels they don't want.
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Over this year, one of the biggest obstacles to buying a high-definition TV crumbled into dust. Even if you're looking for a big, flat-panel plasma or a liquid-crystal display screen, you no longer have to spend more than the cost of a good laptop computer.
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An increasing number of television  viewers are producing their own shows, and the TV industry is  frantically trying to figure out how to combine broadcasts,  Internet movies and home videos into one package.
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By Chris Flores, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Dec. 16--Consumers buying flat-panel high-definition televisions are facing a curious little feature that they aren't quite sure about.
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All U.S. households with televisions  that use analog technology will be eligible for $40 discount  coupons to buy digital converter boxes, the Commerce Department  said on Monday.
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HDTV Wonder snags free high-definition transmissions for budget viewing.
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Sony Corp.'s Creation Box makes images from any TV clearer, flicker-free and more vivid. Users can zoom in on high-definition video without distortion. But at &#36;4,800, it's not for everyone.
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I have good news, bad news, and worse news.  The good news is that I managed to get MythTV working well enough that it now plays standard definition channels better than the cable box alone, even though it's getting its signal from the cable output of the cable box.  I get this benefit because MythTV allows me to tweak various parameters that you can't change on the cable box.   The bad news is that high definition channels still look worse through MythTV than they do if I watch then directly from the cable box.  I don't expect to solve this problem. The cable box may be able to handle HDTV itself, but it outputs a digital signal in 480p, which is basically standard definition. The fact that I have two HDTV-capable tuner cards does me little good.  Here's the worse news. I had to learn way too much to get this far.
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One need only wander into the local electronics emporium to see what gadget makers -- and consumers -- are up against these days. Recently on display at a San Francisco Best Buy (BBY ) were 135 TV sets from
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 8--In an ideal world, every time a new TV set or computer monitor was purchased, an old, junky one would be recycled -- rather than being dumped from Skyline Parkway or tossed into a rural ditch or even forgotten in a basement.
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DVR meets VoD Review Bit of an odd turbot this new TopUP TV service - not a selection of extra Freeview channels like the original TopUp TV offering, nor a full video on-demand system either. Bit of an odd review too, as it's difficult to come to a final conclusion on the hardware without some reference to the associated broadcast service, and that's highly subjective.â¦