http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/06/your-television-may-be-this-months-land-filler-the-analog-digital-conversion/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/06/your-television-may-be-this-months-land-filler-the-analog-digital-conversion/comment-page-1/#comment-9524 Anonymous Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:42:00 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2009/06/your-television-may-be-this-months-land-filler-the-analog-digital-conversion/#comment-9524 But there is no reason people need new TVs because of the changeover. This is a big myth perpetrated by the electronics industry. As long as you have cable, satellite, or an antenna attached to a converter box, you can still watch digitally-broadcast channels on old TVs. Also, some local stations will still broadcast via analog signal. CRTs do use a lot of energy, but so do large flat screen TVs. And while LED screens are much more energy efficient than LCDs of the same size, they don't seem to come smaller than "Ray Bradbury was right when he wrote 'Farenheit 451' "-size. But there is no reason people need new TVs because of the changeover. This is a big myth perpetrated by the electronics industry.
As long as you have cable, satellite, or an antenna attached to a converter box, you can still watch digitally-broadcast channels on old TVs. Also, some local stations will still broadcast via analog signal.
CRTs do use a lot of energy, but so do large flat screen TVs. And while LED screens are much more energy efficient than LCDs of the same size, they don’t seem to come smaller than “Ray Bradbury was right when he wrote ‘Farenheit 451′ “-size.

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