Sales on analogue sets - Today

There was a piece on the sales of 'analogue' TV sets on R4's Today this
morning - seems they are still exceeding those of FreeView ones. The
comment seemed to suggest it was down to ignorance. No one mentioned that
one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty well always far cheaper than a
Freeview set...

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Dave Plowman London SW
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No one mentioned that one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty well
always far cheaper than a Freeview set...

....and far easier to upgrade when a new feature arrives that insert TV
manufacturer hasn't allowed enough processing power/memory/other for.

Paul DS

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:42:31 +0100, "Paul D.Smith"
wrote:

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No one mentioned that one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty well
always far cheaper than a Freeview set...

...and far easier to upgrade when a new feature arrives that insert TV
manufacturer hasn't allowed enough processing power/memory/other for.

Paul DS

I don't think I would buy a digital TV, for the reasons given. In
fact, I would prefer to buy a monitor and let the decoder box do the
work.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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There was a piece on the sales of 'analogue' TV sets on R4's Today this
morning - seems they are still exceeding those of FreeView ones. The
comment seemed to suggest it was down to ignorance. No one mentioned that
one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty well always far cheaper than a
Freeview set...

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Well indeed, all you really want is a monitor with lots of connectivity.

I would still want a analogue tuner in a small set so I can pipe TV around
the house.

"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...
...
No one mentioned that one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty well
always far cheaper than a Freeview set...

...and far easier to upgrade when a new feature arrives that insert TV
manufacturer hasn't allowed enough processing power/memory/other for.


No , it's exactly the same level of difficulty - plug in new STB.
It makes no odds whether the TV has a built in digital tuner or not

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"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...
...
No one mentioned that one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty
well always far cheaper than a Freeview set...

...and far easier to upgrade when a new feature arrives that insert
TV manufacturer hasn't allowed enough processing
power/memory/other for.

No , it's exactly the same level of difficulty - plug in new STB.
It makes no odds whether the TV has a built in digital tuner or not

So why pay more for a TV with a digital tuner built in in the first
place...?

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"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...
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No one mentioned that one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty well
always far cheaper than a Freeview set...

...and far easier to upgrade when a new feature arrives that insert TV
manufacturer hasn't allowed enough processing power/memory/other for.

The PVR is quickly becoming the de facto recording device.
The integrated TV tuner would only be needed when the PVR
was recording 2 programmes.

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Graham. wrote:
The PVR is quickly becoming the de facto recording device.
The integrated TV tuner would only be needed when the PVR
was recording 2 programmes.

Are there figures for sales? I'm sure you're right that in these here
parts, a twin-tuner PVR is common as muck, but there are a lot of
single-tuner PVRs on the shed shelves, and I have the impression that
many people see the natural thing to couple with their ginormous
plasma as being a DVD recorder.

André Coutanche

"ChrisM" wrote in message
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tallest tower:

"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...
...
No one mentioned that one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty
well always far cheaper than a Freeview set...

...and far easier to upgrade when a new feature arrives that insert
TV manufacturer hasn't allowed enough processing
power/memory/other for.

No , it's exactly the same level of difficulty - plug in new STB.
It makes no odds whether the TV has a built in digital tuner or not

So why pay more for a TV with a digital tuner built in in the first
place...?


Because the TV I wanted had a digital tuner anyway.
There wasn't an identical analog-only model available

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"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
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No one mentioned that one of those plus a Freeview box is pretty well
always far cheaper than a Freeview set...

...and far easier to upgrade when a new feature arrives that insert TV
manufacturer hasn't allowed enough processing power/memory/other for.


No , it's exactly the same level of difficulty - plug in new STB.
It makes no odds whether the TV has a built in digital tuner or not

I assumed that he meant it's far easier to upgrade by throwing away (and
replacing) a 20 quid STB than a 200 quid TV.

But he hasn't come back to say that for himself so perhaps It's only me that
thinks this.

tim