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On 25 Jan 2006 23:04:35 GMT, mike
wrote:

Roly wrote

What's the point of only stocking TVs that only receive analogue, when
analogue is for the chop shortly ?

So they can sell you a digital one then.

Seriously, 5 or 6 years time, who knows what will happen, it's beyond what
they hope will be the life of your new telly

The general thought goes along the line that if you ever need to
upgrade your Digital receiver then you won't have to throw away your
TV as well.

I don't think that I would consider buying an IDTV until at least they
have moved to HDTV and MPeg4.

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In article -
berlin.de, steve says...
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:00:44 +0000, Mike Henry wrote:


And even
then, only if it can display an interlaced signal (or I can afford a
professional de-interlacer and scaler).

Genuine q? What can one of them do a decent PC with DTT card cannot?

A PC/DTT setup will certainly be your best bet for HDTV.

Just as long as you stay away from LCD monitors.


--
Conor

Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them
as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B

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"steve" wrote in message
...
It would be nicer if you just ensured you got rid of your stuff
responsibly whatever the law.

If the powers that be are so unrealistic as to make waste disposal
disproportionately expensive for dubious 'environmental' reasons then
ordinary people will break the law and dump things in laybys. Fortunately
this is an area where the public can easily ignore the law and thus expose
the absurdity of some environmental policies.

I live in a village and we are bedevilled by people dumping at the side of
the road, but can you blame them when the local dumpit forbids vehicles
except cars (discrimination against van drivers) and pedestrians
(discrimination against non car owners)?

It's all a con, basically. We have to pay an extra 50p when we get a new
tyre to cover disposal of the old one, yet old tyres can be recycled in all
sorts of ways.

There's no real shortage of landfill in the UK. We have massive opencast
coalmines despoiling the countryside, so why not do the same thing in
reverse and use valleys as massive dumps? Topsoil off, dump, topsoil back
on.

Bill

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Bill Wright wrote:
"steve" wrote in message
...

It would be nicer if you just ensured you got rid of your stuff
responsibly whatever the law.


If the powers that be are so unrealistic as to make waste disposal
disproportionately expensive for dubious 'environmental' reasons then
ordinary people will break the law and dump things in laybys. Fortunately
this is an area where the public can easily ignore the law and thus expose
the absurdity of some environmental policies.

I live in a village and we are bedevilled by people dumping at the side of
the road, but can you blame them when the local dumpit forbids vehicles
except cars (discrimination against van drivers) and pedestrians
(discrimination against non car owners)?

It's all a con, basically. We have to pay an extra 50p when we get a new
tyre to cover disposal of the old one, yet old tyres can be recycled in all
sorts of ways.

There's no real shortage of landfill in the UK. We have massive opencast
coalmines despoiling the countryside, so why not do the same thing in
reverse and use valleys as massive dumps? Topsoil off, dump, topsoil back
on.

Then build on it, then ... ;-)

Bill



Well, I blame privatisation ;-)

In fairness LB Newham's tip (private) allows anything FOC (except paint
curiously, and probably weapons grade plutonium, and ...), and vans, but
you have to take your driving license to prove you're a resident.

Rob

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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:



There's no real shortage of landfill in the UK. We have massive opencast
coalmines despoiling the countryside, so why not do the same thing in
reverse and use valleys as massive dumps? Topsoil off, dump, topsoil back
on.

there was the valley in mid-Wales used to dump car tyres, it caught fire.
quite fun really.

--
From KT24 - in "leafy" Surrey

Using a RISC OS5 computer

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In article ,
Rob wrote:

[Snip]

Well, I blame privatisation ;-)

It is mainly due to ODPM witha bit of EU thrown in for good measure.

--
From KT24 - in "leafy" Surrey

Using a RISC OS5 computer

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charles wrote:

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

There's no real shortage of landfill in the UK. We have massive opencast
coalmines despoiling the countryside, so why not do the same thing in
reverse and use valleys as massive dumps? Topsoil off, dump, topsoil back
on.

there was the valley in mid-Wales used to dump car tyres, it caught fire.
quite fun really.

I lived in a house that had been built on the site of an old
(legitimate) tyre dump. It had caught fire, and been destroyed. Along
came Bryant Homes and built a housing estate. It was very difficult to
get anything to grow, or even survive in the garden.

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I think you should get up to date! Modern LCD screens are perfectly
viewable from at least +/- 45 deg. to head on.

I have seen no evidence that LCD life span is an issue, and they will not

Why should I pay 3,500 for an LCD screen when the lamp will burn out in 5
years while a CRT will last over 20 years. In fact since I normally leave
the TV switched on to listen to it while I'm at the computer at my rate of
usage the lamp would but out or be so dim as to make the TV unmatchable in
less than a year.

flare and de-focus with old age as CRTs do. Also LCD and plasma screens
will always give inherently perfect geometry and colour registration with
no problems of convergence or scanning linearity.

What is this lamp you're talking about? We're not talking about projection.

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Agamemnon wrote:
Dman useless MS spellchecker. [...] unmatchable = unmatchable.

Ah, yes. Much better.

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Malcolm H wrote:
What is this lamp you're talking about? We're not talking about
projection.

He means the backlight in an LCD panel. He seems to have a fairly
pessimistic view of its lifespan. I believe MTBF figures are currently
in the range 30,000 to 50,000 hours, which is comparable with a CRT. Not
sure about the cost or difficulty of replacement - I suspect that for
most people, by the time the backlight expires, technology will have
moved on and they'll want a new display rather than fixing the old one.