Not one to be patient

I have to say that I thought I would post a blog and someone read it and respond. Not so, i have once again fallen victim to my narcissistic ways. Anyway if anyone does stumble in here I hope you will comment on whether or not you care if the TV signal goes digital or not. I had delayed signing up with the satellite company when we moved in 2 years ago thinking that we would be moving again shortly. I had opted for an aerial antenna that got better than average reception. I found a company call Terrestrial that makes a modified "Bow Tie" type of UHF antenna that really does a good job. I am geographically challenged to the point of receiving some of the better signal. I have to look around the corner to see the broadcast tower but with an amplifier I was able to make all but the CW channel to come in clear enough for digital.

The downside I see for the conversion is that analog TV picked up even the weakest signals and you had to adjust your antenna to filter out the cross over signals. Digital won't come in if you have conflicting signals or if the signal is not strong enough. This can be good and bad. When you have a signal you will have the best picture possible, always. But when the signal goes away or a storm moves in for instance you will have heavy pixelization and drop out or lost signal. Now I only have a cheap Samsung 30 in HDTV but I thoroughly enjoy watching the nature programs and Sunday night football on KSL/TV.

I recently bought a DVD player recorder thinking I was upgrading to new technology, at least that is what I told the wife. I really wanted something that I could up convert to 1080P and have a few more bells and whistles. Although I have been playing with the record function of the player and found that I need to buy a component cable if I want to use the TV's tuner to record the picture. Hind sight is I should have bought a unit that had a built in digital tuner as well, one that picks up HD. Anyway the up convert pictures are great. I will let you know how the recording does since it is also supposed to be able to record in HD as well. FYI this is not a Blue Ray, I haven't got that kind of scratch.

I am still looking for the satellite companies to offer a better package before I sign up again. I don't think I will be throwing out the antenna though since I get some channels not offered from any of the cable or satellite companies.. Imagine that! I just believe that if I am paying for the signal to be sent from whatever source then 100% of the programming should be in HDTV at the very least up converted. I know that is more bandwidth but I think I deserve more for my money than they are offering.

Welcome All!

I am technically literate but have chosen to stay out of the minimal uses found on the Internet. This blog is my first attempt to see what to expect posting a blog. I not only consider myself an expert but many other people do as well so I must learn about this process so that I can continue to pretend that I am indeed a GURU. If ou would like to vent about me or some other self-proclaimed expert I have a blog for that as well. Just look for the wierdguru blog subtitled "don't panic we're Professionals"

If you would like to kick things off by submitting a comment here I would be glad to start entertaining ideas for future posts. For now I will keep things open allow all post so long as the timbre is not offensive to general readership i.e. it better be able to pass scrutiny of what should be allowed for children to read. In other words keep the language clean. Besides it takes less time to type just what you mean without all the #*%@# expletives.

I have posted a couple of labels to attract some of the more relevant topics that I can think of right now. I hope you will reply with a greeting.