Weird high tech problem

[Mark]

(01-12-2016 10:20 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  My wife just got a new flat-screen one (against my wishes, as I'd rather not have a TV in the house), and the new one's receiver's sensitivity is very poor compared to the old CRT one's. I guess the figure everyone has cable so there's no need to operate off an antenna. The new one only gets one-fifth as many channels as the old one did. The resolution is ridiculous though. I really don't want to see people's nose hair, ear hair, their pores, or the stray threads hanging off their clothes.

Since you mention it though, I think we did have wireless router trouble right after setting up the TV, so I'll look into it.

It seems I'm not the only one saying that when something changes, it's not always for the good (technically speaking) : last year I switched from a Philips CRT to a Sony LCD, and each time I power it up, I cannot help cursing it for being so slow ("Please wait") to get ready to react to the remote controller, not to mention channel-switching.

Speaking about sensitivity : digital TV is inherently far less tolerant to the slightest signal strength loss than analog -to me it's one more regression. Everyone around me says I demand too much... they keep asking why I don't watch TV via internet "antenna ? what antenna ??" ... am I some kind of dinosaur ? :-)

Marc
(calculi on 6502.org)