First Time Buyer...Updated 03/06/2006
This post is intended to be helpful to the first time buyer of a motor home. For those of you who don't fall into that category or believe this post is incomplete or off the mark, do us all a favor, a...
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Don't depend on the RV dealer to know about your towed vehicle rewquirements, they can barely keep up with the new RV models and how they work. Your best place it to visit your local automobile dealer for the brand and model specific information. Ask if you can look through an owners manual for towing requirements. That's the only way to get the correct information in the shortest amount of time.
Your TV comment lends me to believe you are confused on the HD and Digital TV differances. First, TVs come in CRT (conventional Cathode Ray Tube), LCD, Plasma, and rear projection. All those could be Digital or analog, they all could be HD too. What one has to look for is the tuner, if it is analog tuning, that set will need a converter box to convert the new digital signal to a useable analog signal for the tuner to work. If it has a digital tuner it is capable of recieving the using the new digital signal as it arrives at the set.
Remember, just because a set has a digital tuner, doesn'r mean it is an HD set. To be an HD set, it has to have at least 920 lines of horizontal resolution, 1080 is better. Also, there is progressive scan and interlaced scanning to consider. In progressive scanning each line of resolution is refreshed during every scan, if it is interlaced, every other line is refreshed during each scan. (Each scan being the sweep of the total horizontal lines of the screen resolution by the TV color gun or electronic picture build in LCDs or Plasma sets).
So there you have it in a nutshell, digital does not mean HD, HD does not mean it is a digital tuner. Look for the phrase or similar that says DIGITAL TUNER. Hope this clears up the confusion on HD vs Digital.
Re: HD DVDs, the Blue Ray by Sony has taken the ball and is going to be the driver of the HD DVD format. Toshiba's HD format is out although there are players out there that can decode and play either.
The signals sent by all DVD or VCR players are broken down inside the player so there are several options for connecting the player to the video input of the viewing device or TV set. But that's a whole other story to tell.
Your TV comment lends me to believe you are confused on the HD and Digital TV differances. First, TVs come in CRT (conventional Cathode Ray Tube), LCD, Plasma, and rear projection. All those could be Digital or analog, they all could be HD too. What one has to look for is the tuner, if it is analog tuning, that set will need a converter box to convert the new digital signal to a useable analog signal for the tuner to work. If it has a digital tuner it is capable of recieving the using the new digital signal as it arrives at the set.
Remember, just because a set has a digital tuner, doesn'r mean it is an HD set. To be an HD set, it has to have at least 920 lines of horizontal resolution, 1080 is better. Also, there is progressive scan and interlaced scanning to consider. In progressive scanning each line of resolution is refreshed during every scan, if it is interlaced, every other line is refreshed during each scan. (Each scan being the sweep of the total horizontal lines of the screen resolution by the TV color gun or electronic picture build in LCDs or Plasma sets).
So there you have it in a nutshell, digital does not mean HD, HD does not mean it is a digital tuner. Look for the phrase or similar that says DIGITAL TUNER. Hope this clears up the confusion on HD vs Digital.
Re: HD DVDs, the Blue Ray by Sony has taken the ball and is going to be the driver of the HD DVD format. Toshiba's HD format is out although there are players out there that can decode and play either.
The signals sent by all DVD or VCR players are broken down inside the player so there are several options for connecting the player to the video input of the viewing device or TV set. But that's a whole other story to tell.
setraveler wrote:
NOTE ON BUYING NEW 2008-09 etc... We are still looking at around 35-37 feet diesel and plan to tow. VERY little dealer info on what is required of towed car, how it is hooked up, front wheels of ground, etc.. or costs or what is best method hardware to use to tow
BUT REAL RIP OFF we found was the TV sets. NEALY ALL say.. "LCD" etc..b BUT.. we found that nearly ALL were of the LCD BUT NOT HD.. which will be ONLY ones OK after digital kicks in. We asked dealers about that and got kind of dumb look of "Aw well....etc". One said NOT an issue as you will go Sat for receiving. so asked about what happens if we want local TV if parked somewhere as "local while on move" is question? We then find that a lot of "LCD" TV on sale, and more so installed in RV's is NOT HD.. and friend in TV business aaid, huge discounts being given at whole sale levels on the NOT HD but are LCD for use in any area, not just homes.. So WATCH what you get. the "Big LCD may not quite be what you thought it was.. and none could discuss if we wanted to play CD's, the old ones we have, as well as the new HD what happens then???? Seems that buying and knowing what you get is more difficult each day.. more so in RV land.
