On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:05 PM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve, did you find out additional useful tuner specs?
Absolutely none. Zero. Nada. Zilch. There are none readily available for the end user. A tuner is the unwanted stepchild of the television industry, required to be in a television for it to be called a television, otherwise it is just a monitor. Considering the high cost of televisions, I cannot explain why such specifications are not available other than the fact that almost no one gives it a thought. In my numerous perusals of television reviews, it was revealed that some major brands apparently have pretty crappy tuners. Television is a visual medium, and in the digital world, for the most part, you will either have a picture or not have a picture be it over-the-air or by way of cable or satellite or some other source. Since televisions are pretty much solely judged based upon how good the picture looks, not being able to receive a picture really does not really enter onto the equation. It is simply assumed that a viewer will get a picture, and even if it is but one channel, all judgements will be based upon that one picture that it is able to display, thus all other aspects of performance are moot. I realize that this sounds pretty ridiculous, but it appears to be the way it is. I somewhat liken this to how hung up people get about the speed at which a computer can operate, as though that single factor is all that matters. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
