Quote:
|
Originally Posted by dellwear
I'd hardly call £49.99 for a STB a premium price. Saying that I guess if you're on a low income it could be more than you could afford.
On the note of your search for an LCD Chris, my other half just bought a 17" widescreen LCD TV (Samsung) for his office for ~£300 so they are coming down in price.  |
I think for a pensioner on a fixed income, £50 is still a bit steep. However my personal gripe with this not so much to do with Freeview STBs, which to be honest are little more than an 'intermediate' technology, but rather the cost of fully integrated digital TV.
We will not have truly converted from analogue to digital until the TV in the corner of your room picks up digital TV signals through its aerial in *exactly* the same way it currently does for analogue. Nobody would consider it acceptable to buy a new TV and then find they have to spend either £50 for an external tuner to pick up analogue signals or a premium of something like £200 for the 'luxury' of a built in analogue tuner. Yet for digital we are somehow expected to accept this.
And other things we used to take for granted remain completely impossible: the ability to watch one channel and tape another, for example, thanks to the complete absence of DVB-T enabled video recorders, DVD recorders or whatever.
As for the tellies you've spotted, I've seen a couple of nice 17" models myself, but TBH I'd like something a little bigger. And as usual, what is available comes with built in obsolesence - namely an analogue tuner.
