The end of an era

[Cliphead]

Tried a "powered" aerial by attaching a booster box? Worked wonders for me.

Ah right, the extra 2% makes it all right?

[nomadd]

Ah right, the extra 2% makes it all right?

I was working on the assumption that the 98% might be a red herring...

[Cliphead]

I was working on the assumption that the 98% might be a red herring...

You don't give credit to my analytical skills and more headroom to the muppets running the current dig tech. Try thinking for yourself sometime it might surprise you (or maybe not).

[nomadd]

You don't give credit to my analytical skills...

Nope, I didn't, SAS.

All hail.

[Cliphead]

Nope, I didn't, SAS.

All hail.

That should be Hail Hail.

Anaytical skills - FAIL.

[nomadd]

Anaytical skills - FAIL.

Correct. That's why you can't get your TV Aeriel to work properly.

[Cliphead]

Correct. That's why you can't get your TV Aeriel to work properly.

[nomadd]

Ah yes, the cunning plan to reduce power consumption, save the whales, stop gloabal warming by increasing the power consumption of a tv from about 75W to 300 to 400W.

Some of those plasma tvs resemble an electric fire.

That's just not true these days. The latest generation of plasmas have become very power efficient (and LED TVs even more so.) And their power efficiency gets better and better with each new generation.

For example:

- 2012 Panasonic Plasma TX-P 42" (a very large screen size compared most old CRT screens) has a power consumption of 148W.

- 2001 Sony Trinitron CRT 36" consumed 160W.

A latest generation Samsung 55" LED consumes just over 100W.

So, all in all, modern TVs have become hugely power efficient for the vast screen sizes they offer.

[Sysman]

It's been digital here for some time, 98% signal strength but still get freezes and other glitches. Analogue didn't have these problems so are we faced with a generation or two thinking glitchty TV is the norm, kinda like most people thinking computers crash (thanks to Microsoft)?

That brings back memories of TV engineers who would bang the side of the TV to get it working.

A cartoon in the 70s depicted two TV engineers looking under the bonnet of their van, one suggesting to the other that they try a hammer. Everyone immediately saw the joke.

[Sysman]

Tried a "powered" aerial by attaching a booster box? Worked wonders for me.

I tried various boosters in my first house but they were all useless.

We were supposed to get a new transmitter the next year, but five years later it still hadn't arrived.