HDTV Thoughts

HDTV but no content simple cheap fix

This surprised me but I've seen a lot of HDTV hooked up to an SD source and it looks terrible. It's like spending $1,500 and wasting half your money. Most please don't want to invest the additional cost for HD programming and HD receiver because it going to cost $20 more a month or $240 a year. Whats even crazier is that comcast new all digital basic package is encrypted so you have to use the terrible SD adaptor rather than better built in one on your tv. (Thanks FCC for allowing this travesty of encrypting basic cable just after abandon cable cards). I know the average technical expertise of a politician is so low he should wear a dunce cap. Rant Most Republican politicians would flunk high school biology because it does not fit in with their religious views and junior high economics because they can't do basic math (cut tax = deficits even with spending cuts).

So here is how to screw your greedy cable company, its called ROKU. They are really cheap at $60-70 for 720p and 1080p models. Make sure to order a Amazon $5 hdmi cable when you buy the box. otherwise you will be back at SD. You probably already have Netflix if you don't its only $8 a month and the ROKU has a ton over other channels a lot of them free. You have access to 1000's of HD programs and you hurt the cable company because bandwidth gets used. May be you will decide that after a few months you can drop cable a just rely on streaming content on your ROKU.

posted by Unknown @ 12:39 PM