I have been trying to persuade my sister for years to give up the antenna on her roof and switch over to satellite. She is not hurting for money and cable television would truly help her fill up her time while she is at home taking care of her mother.
She does watch TV but she watches the same channel all day long. I keep informing her of all the benefits about HDTVs and how she could easily switch out her regular antenna and change it with a newer antenna, which would give her higher quality pictures, but she won't make the change.
I guess people just don't like change. I know it is not a money thing because she has a lot of it and I even offered to buy her one. Her response was, "I don't need one of those fancy looking tv's". I guess my big push for an HDTV comes from my own experience with them.
We live in a really small town in Washington. We don't have much in the form of entertainment so we depend on our tv for our nightly recreation and parties. When I saw the clear pictures at our local store, I was stunned and immediately hooked.
Then I heard about the antenna you can buy either for the outdoors or indoors. I thought this was great because our cable company charges an arm and a leg for the new channels. All we needed to do was pay for the antenna one time.
We installed the indoor one in a matter of minutes. As soon as we turned our HDTV on, it scans the channels and picked them all up, I was so excited. Now, I watch all the great high quality picture shows on channels like A&E and the most popular ones like CBS and FOX.
Watching television was never as pleasurable as it is now. It's like the people are sitting in your living room with you or you are with them in whatever place they are. The Discovery Channel makes you feel like you have transported yourself from the little municipality you live in to just anywhere in the world.
I love this television and I just wish my family would understand. I don't know, I guess one of these days someone in the family will get in touch with the present and buy themselves a nice HDTV. Until then they will just continue to watch their little 19" out of date junkie Televisions.
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