Ok,
[RANT]I've had a bad day... (been fighting with engineers who can't get it straight on a large renovation for going on three months now). And I just got my DVD-RAM via UPS today as my VCR gave up the ghost... my TV died just before Christmas so I picked up an HDTV flat sceen and mounted it on the wall.
I don't waste money on cable TV as I bought and installed an antenna on the roof of my 2 story town home and get plenty of chanels, 99% are in HDTV as well as standard NTSC.
Plugged in the new DVD-RAM and find its only got a NTSC tuner... it up converts 1080i but only NTSC!(thats standard TV tuner with HDTV capability in the output
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I got back online and see the specs from multiple sorces on this DVD-RAM say TV: Yes
Out put: 480i, 480p, 720i (HDTV) 1080i (HDTV).... so I guess I "assumed" it could tune what it could display...
I get online and find the only designated ATSC tuners I can find in something that records are like $1000 (but they seem to be ATSC CABLE tuners).... and they are all DVR's
So is there some conspiracy with Cable TV providers, or just not enought folks inthe digital world who don't like to throw money out the window for cable?
Am I nuts here? Have I missed something? Why doesn't anybody make a DVD-RAM that does HDTV? [/rant]