Hey everyone Charrell From Rochester,New York; I work for a Phone Company in my area that has done waht Time warner has done by doing the all in one.(satallite tv,Telephone,internet).So i had a customer of mine that i was trying to upsell to the all in one service(he had not decided to do all in one with Time warner yet)so it should have been a sinch to make the sale. But alas my customer had one question and one alone that would be the deciding factor before he decided to make the decision with my company or atime Warner's. He wanted to know about (HD).My Customer wants to know or have an understanding,if the Television Studios and the Television Manufactures are doing this push for HD and he has already gone out and boughtyour standard or i should say bargain everyday 20-32 inch analog TV will this change force a senior Citizen to go out and blow his pention on a TV that he will have to higher someone to put together and change chanels?(basically in a nutshell is HD something that he will have to worry about in his lifetime)? So i decided to to come to the group that has always been able to shed light on many of my questions in record time. So any links that you guys may have or be aware so that i can share this information with him and put his mind at ease so that come Monday i might be able to close this sale..(not really worried about the sale just about having the correct information to provided to him..Thanks everyone in advance..
i believe that there are convertor connectors for most hdtv connections that would allow an hd satellite receiver to be connected to any typical tv with analog imputs.
You might also consider moving this to displays....Ced (Diabolos) lurks about there and his knowledge of the subject is impressive.
thread teleported to relevant forum, and various multiposts closed - in future please only make one thread per subject, thanks
Hey creaky i guess i need more work on posting,someone suggested i post to another forum so i did.when that happens what should i do in the future?
The major misconception is that everything is going to HD. We are not going to HD we are going to Digital. And "We" are the people with antennas. The switch over doesn't effect cable companies or satalight providers (although satatlight services or DBS is inherently digital). FYI: TimeWarner is one of the few cable companies that has committed to having an all digital system along side its analog system. So TWC customers are lucky to have true analog and true DTV/HDTV service all through one pipe 24/7 (for a fee of course . So long story short, if he has baisc cable he won't need to worry about the switch over at all. Are you aware that all tvs 25" and up have over the air DTV tuners or ATSC built-in (unless they are monitors). Your customer doesn't have to by an expensive tv to reap the benifits of DTV/HDTV. DTV/HDTV is available free over the air in most cases. Also cable companies must carry the local DTV channels in a region for free (or unscrambled/in-the-clear). All he would need to receive digital locals via basic cable service is a clear-QAM tuner built-in to his tv. This site has all the info on the switch over... http://www.dtv.gov/ Antenna Web.org is a tool to help you set up your out door antenna to get teh best over the air HDTV picture... http://antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx Titan TV.com is like tv guide but better. It will show you whats on in your area from all available service providers.... http://ww2.titantv.com/quickguide/quickguide.aspx Ced
