Direct TV revisited

JimR 1 wrote:
Gdetrailer

Thank You for the reply you are correct about the old equipment and I do understand that it is time for an upgrade, but I am still hanging onto my Jeep I bought new in 1998.

Again thanks all for the replies

JimR

Understandable, I have a 1901 vehicle and a 1973 vehicle but they are not a practical everyday use vehicle, they to are obsolete even though they are driveable, they are not up to todays modern standards and have far less comforts and safety features and are a hazard to all the folks feeling they need to go 80 MPH on the roads.

I myself have lots of antique electronics by todays standards, heck I still have an old "Big dish" C band dish in the backyard that I need to pull down with my tractor.. Haven't been able to buy programming from C Band since 2007.. Far better picture than any of the mini dishes since C band didn't use as high of video compression as DTV or Dish..

Even have a 1977 Philco 25" TV and a 1978 Zenith 19" TV ""classics" for sure) in the basement that do actually work and have a very nice picture for SD video, but they to are very obsolete and newer TVs have much brighter pix, more vivid color, larger, less weight and use a lot less electricity.. Those are on my list to dispose of one of these days, absolutely no one wants them and they are worth nothing..

I have some VHS recorders in good working condition and even some Hi8 recorders plus Hi8 camcorder all working but really obsolete, I believe even tape manufacturers has discontinued making video tapes rendering those pretty much door stops for their original intended purposes.

Have a standalone DVD recorder, finding older slower speed recordable DVDs that are compatible with that unit is not easy, pretty much rendering it obsolete..

Have a Profession Marantz CD audio recorder, can use any computer recordable blanks, newer CD blanks are a hit or miss thing, some work some don't rendering that pretty much a doorstop.

Have a friend that bought a CD audio recorder which required special audio only CD blanks, yeah, try finding those now days.. That supply has gone away like the Dino and what is left of those are Chinese knockoffs and he burns a lot of "coasters"..

In the electronic world sometimes you just have to let go of the older equipment and move on. The standards keep changing rapidly and in DTVs case, it comes down to they are planning to move all transmissions to a much newer video compression standard in order to get all of their in house processes on one single standard.. To do that they will eventually have to stop transmitting the older standard that your old equipment uses.. Your old equipment will not be able to decode the newer video compression.

In reality, chances are you would really like the newer HD/SD sat equipment once you get past the cost to replace the old automatic sat dish..