TV Channels

by Keith

Do you understand all there is to know about TV these days —stuff like HD, converter box, channel 3.1, digital antenna, and so forth?

I didn't think so. Me neither.

But I learned something from Tom the other night. (Stick with Tom. He can teach you about 1015 onions, TV channels, and who knows what else!)

We have a digital TV in our trailer, as do many of you. What does that mean? Well, for one thing, it means that you can receive High Definition pictures. They're the wide ones. The width to length ratio is 16 to 9, while the "old' TV pictures are 4 to 3. But they are also broadcast in much higher definition!

In order to get ABC (channel 3 here) in HD, we were having to switch from cable to antenna to receive the HD version.

Then Tom told mentioned the "high channels." I tried it and learned that channel 98.1 is ABC in HD! CBS in HD is also up there somewhere! And others, too.

On our set (your mileage may vary), we normally could punch in 98, then push "channel up" to get 98.1. But that doesn't work, at least at the moment. We just push 98, then wait and it goes to 98.1 automatically. Also, normally one can get to the "point channels" by pushing "98" "minus sign" "1".

Of course that discovery generated curiosity so I went exploring. I found dozens of channels of music on channel 70.xx. For example, channel 70.33 is Classical Masterpieces. There are three channels of country music and goodness knows how many channels of rock "music." Take a tour and discover your favorite!

Thanks, Tom. What's the subject of the next learning experience?

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