[mythtv-users] Recommendations for HDTV?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:42:50 -0800, you wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:09 PM, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 28, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > So, what's the recommendation from the hive mind?
>>
>> Whatever you pick make sure to get yourself a good antenna. HD over the
>> air is really, really nice. Unless you live in the sticks and all your
>> transmitters got shut off a few years ago.
>>
>
>Thanks, but unfortunately antenna.org says I'm out of luck. I'm about 60
>miles north of San Francisco where most of the affiliate transmitters are,
>and about 2 miles behind a giant hill which blocks whatever signal I would
>receive. I'll probably end up getting one of the transcoding HDHomeRun
>CableCard models, if they actually manage to come out this year... (it's
>been 2 years since announced!)
>
>I did take a look at Costco today but their deals were not compelling. I
>didn't see the Haier model but I wasn't looking terribly closely. We did
>end up buying a dining room table, though (awesome deal) so the TV may wait
>a little longer...! I'd still like to know about pitfalls. I remember
>hearing discussion on the list about people having to fake out the EDID to
>work around some bugs in the HDMI connection, etc.
>
>Karl

I had to do that for my first Panasonic LCD TV, so when I upgraded to
1920x1080 I bought a Sony which has largely correct EDID and has been
great.