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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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.
What I was saying is HD is digital and a TV that is listed as "LCD" liq crystal may NOT be an HD it maybe analog.. and a lot of them area..and as such are being dumped..HD to me refers to digital as analog will not process new HD signals.. starting in FEB 2009.. converter box is OK but another 100 bucks or so for BOTH TV's... front and rear.. for local stations as dish/cable are handling it for you, regardless of A or D set. BUT the dealers never mention which is on board..nor it seems like to ba asked. ANOTHER biggy with the group that loosely falls under LCD.plasma etc.. is the view angles also shift depending on type. and that we found real drive on one outside unit that pretty much demanded head on look only. later we found it was not digital and was one of many being dumped. NOTE Circuit City and others fined big time by FCC or such for selling Analogs and kind of forgetting to advise consumers of impact of 2009.. which by LAW they were required to do.. Getting so when looking at any unit..
I now approach it as a swindle waiting to happen....from experiences so far get a bit fed up with what we hear and see.. but then that is not limited to RV's.. seems the scam is often the selling points.I have heard but never confirmed that it is not illegal to turn back miles on RV as some say it is not covered by laws in some states..We are in no hurry to buy....so we look, take notes and seek advise... towing is one item we are concerned with.. as a side story our neighbors had a tow civic.. they had VERY low insurance rate for car as not used much. but ins looked at miles on it.. mostly all towed..and raised their rates.. even though tow car and RV carries ins for towed car. They were livid.. but tried it and now prefer a tow rig that has auto front wheels off ground... Kind of curious about various tow car hook ups..how they are installed on car side.. lights they use are ones that are not part of car.. and no brake on tow via RV..
Thought on tow.. good and bad...probably use small cross over or civic sized car..
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.
What I was saying is HD is digital and a TV that is listed as "LCD" liq crystal may NOT be an HD it maybe analog.. and a lot of them area..and as such are being dumped..HD to me refers to digital as analog will not process new HD signals.. starting in FEB 2009.. converter box is OK but another 100 bucks or so for BOTH TV's... front and rear.. for local stations as dish/cable are handling it for you, regardless of A or D set. BUT the dealers never mention which is on board..nor it seems like to ba asked. ANOTHER biggy with the group that loosely falls under LCD.plasma etc.. is the view angles also shift depending on type. and that we found real drive on one outside unit that pretty much demanded head on look only. later we found it was not digital and was one of many being dumped. NOTE Circuit City and others fined big time by FCC or such for selling Analogs and kind of forgetting to advise consumers of impact of 2009.. which by LAW they were required to do.. Getting so when looking at any unit..
I now approach it as a swindle waiting to happen....from experiences so far get a bit fed up with what we hear and see.. but then that is not limited to RV's.. seems the scam is often the selling points.I have heard but never confirmed that it is not illegal to turn back miles on RV as some say it is not covered by laws in some states..We are in no hurry to buy....so we look, take notes and seek advise... towing is one item we are concerned with.. as a side story our neighbors had a tow civic.. they had VERY low insurance rate for car as not used much. but ins looked at miles on it.. mostly all towed..and raised their rates.. even though tow car and RV carries ins for towed car. They were livid.. but tried it and now prefer a tow rig that has auto front wheels off ground... Kind of curious about various tow car hook ups..how they are installed on car side.. lights they use are ones that are not part of car.. and no brake on tow via RV..
Thought on tow.. good and bad...probably use small cross over or civic sized car..
