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| Your new TV may soon be a Consumer Relic |
| 2007-10-09 |
| Posted by:Mullah Richard |
| #4 Global Nuke = Ion Power. The young children [middle school or younger] of some families I know here on Guam use their 1990's - 2004/2005? aged TV sets only for videos and older games.Computers > besides schoolwork, are used for newest Net and rental [CD-DVD] games. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-09 20:26 |
| #3 They'll have a converter box for old tuners that the government will probably give away to the first 40 million households. Either that or a voucher. We cna have vouchers for TV but not schools. go figure. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-10-09 19:48 |
| #2 In the US aren't we going to exclusive HD TV signals in 2009? Which means a great many old televisions will only be useful for watching videos thereafter, if I understand correctly. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-09 19:32 |
| #1 It found [LCD] TVs were fast overtaking fridges, heaters and air-conditioners as the major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions from households. Read again and savor the sheer idiocy of that statement. It is a fact the large LCD displays consume more energy than modern CRTs (I think up to 27" the LCDs are better off). But I never heard of TVs of an kind guzzling out greenhouse gases. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-09 19:25 |