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[ChrisTheTireWhisperer]

@db4690

I have an EXTREMELY hard time believing that

It’s my ride, my b u t t in the driver seat. I’ve driven the car long enough to know all of its ‘proclivities’.

@db4690

I believe you PRIDE yourself on doing the exact oppositive of what everybody else does

You are somebody who deliberately does whatever it takes to generate strife

Like I said db: I’m not Fox, I have no reason to mess around with ya. I’m being quite honest about my preferences for the past, for the way things were done, the tech, all of it.

And I know it’s shocking to many of you, but that’s the truth. And I’m not the only one.

There’s a vintage electronics YouTuber who hasn’t changed a single thing in the house his parents bought 60 years ago, and still lives in today. The center of attention is a 24” color Zenith or RCA TV. Offside, a console HiFi complete with phono, tuner, and tape inputs.

The place is not a dump, but rather a meticulously cleaned and maintained time capsule, but that’s what he chooses to wake up to, or come home to, every day. I applaud him, but even I’m not that extreme.

If time travel ever actually became a thing db, it would be “Nice to know you, I’m going home!”

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I dunno. All of the networks changed to digital transmission. The old tvs are worthless and don’t work. We had to replace all of them. We kept the one with a dvd player. Maybe I missed something.

[ChrisTheTireWhisperer]

@bing

All of the networks changed to digital transmission. The old tvs are worthless and don’t work.

They went digital because they had to get people to buy new TVs again. CRT ‘tube’ technology was stagnant: It had been perfected by the 1970s, and was so reliable by 2000 that sets could last 20-30 years. No profits!

And so the plan to overhaul the entire TV system was hatched.

Many fell for it in other ways - they assumed all broadcasting would go away by 2009, so it was a really great year for anyone with cable stocks!

[texases]

I found the improvement going to HDTV stunning, and could never go back. Maybe get your eyes checked?

[ChrisTheTireWhisperer]

Here’s a big reason I prefer analog/NTSC:

The greater the distance you are from analogs, the snowier the picture gets, buuuuut: you can still hear the audio. Good if you need to step away to the kitchen or latrine.

With digital/ATSC, once a station gets too weak to pull in, you lose everything.

Yes, the full HD picture experience is amazing, but to me, it’s not worth the entire signal (video + audio) cutting in and out.

[Nevada_545]

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

I don’t understand the attitude that it’s ok, on my 32psi Accord, for one tire to be 30, another, 35, another, 28, and onther, 31.

For me, that’s just sloppy and lazy.

Are you suggesting that someone reduced the air pressure in three of your tires and added air to one tire?

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

But why be so against bi-weekly or monthly checks, and resetting them all to door placard values?

If you are checking your tire pressure that often, there should be no reason for a service provider to make pressure adjustments to your tires.

[ChrisTheTireWhisperer]

@Nevada_545

Are you suggesting that someone reduced the air pressure in three of your tires and added air to one tire?

!

A typical person doing a typical job of inflating tires might figger that 30, 34, 32, and 33psi is ‘GoodNuff’. Not so a tire whisperer.

I fully understand that, even if going by the $60 gauge in my avatar, adjusting the pressures to indicate 32psi on that quality of gauge, the actual pressures might be 31.7, 32.1, 32.2, and 31.9.

Far more acceptable than the ‘GoodNuff’ scenario, for me.

@Nevada_545

If you are checking your tire pressure that often, there should be no reason for a service provider to make pressure adjustments to your tires.

The problem is, the most often anyone checks air pressures in tires is when something is wrong. Purely reactionary.

[LoudThunder]

@bing

The old tvs are worthless and don’t work. We had to replace all of them.

The old TV are not useless in this digital age. If you have a Digital Converter Box (about the size of a thick paperback book) it converts the digital signal to analog. I have two hooked up to old VHS players. I have Gigabit Internet, but I do not want Cable TV (too many channels…). Most channels (actually the vast majority of them) we have no interest in and the channel guide is so slow, by the time you look through it, most of the program is over… But I digress…

I also have an 18-foot Beam Antenna in my attic and I pick up over 75-digital channels and it feeds to a splitter that feeds our digital TVs and it feed the Digital Converter Boxes on the VCRs so we can still record off the digital network.

I also have a Roku Streaming device on each TV and they bring in hundreds of more channels off the internet and I also have a Tablo Digital Video Recorder to record the digital channels…

But the real disadvantage with the old TVs were lower picture quality and they warmed up any room from the heat generated from its electronics and they were a lot more expensive to run. Small CRT TV used about 80 watts and the large ones used as much as 250 watts an hour…

So, if you use the DVD player much, it would pay to buy one of the many good ones at thrift shops for as little as $2-5.00.

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

They went digital because they had to get people to buy new TVs again. CRT ‘tube’ technology was stagnant: It had been perfected by the 1970s, and was so reliable by 2000 that sets could last 20-30 years. No profits!

In a way you are right, but you could not be more wrong about the reasons… I will not argue the “Planned Obsolesce” of modern manufacturers…

But Digital TV offers significantly better picture and sound quality, more channel capacity through multicasting (that is where broadcasters can send supplementary digital channels on their existing broadcast signal, which can be seen in digital sub-channels; for instance Channel 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, etc…)

However; the global shift to digital was driven by these technical advantages, especially the efficient use of spectrum to deliver more services, the ability to offer high-definition content, and the eventual phase-out of older, less efficient analog technology.

There is only so much spectrum (the frequencies available for TV, Radio, etc…) if you want more information on this, Google it…

As more and more “things” use the available spectrum, the more and more crowded it becomes. Just to name a few of the things using the available spectrum are: mobile phones/cellular networks (3G, 4G, 5G), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, satellite communications (GPS, TV, weather), and emergency services (police, fire, medical).

[ChrisTheTireWhisperer]

If using a rooftop antenna to receive terrestrial over-the-air, all things bring equal, you either need 1) a more sensitive antenna than what you pulled analog TV in with, or 2) to aim your antenna more precisely to receive digital TV than you had to to pull in analog.

As you may surmise, picture resolution is waaay down on my list of TV priororities.

[Nevada_545]

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

A typical person doing a typical job of inflating tires might figger that 30, 34, 32, and 33psi is ‘GoodNuff’. Not so a tire whisperer.

That is a common outcome when a lube tech sets tire pressure to 35 psi.
They usually only have 20 minutes to perform a service, not enough time for the tires to cool. Front tires are normally 10 to 15 degrees warmer than rear tires, front tires need to be inflated about 1.5 psi higher to compensate. Other factors are wind direction, air flow/temperature in the shop, which side of the vehicle was exposed to the sun while parked.

The question remains unanswered: why did someone release air from the tires on your car?

[bing]

I clearly am being outclasses. 30 years ago I put an antenna in th3 attic. I ran both cable and antenna outlets to every room. Never used the antenna because I used the cable inlet to run cable on every tv, no problem. Then cable required a box for each tv, so we just put them on two tvs at $7 a month. The other five tvs I just hooked up to the antenna. Problem i# we are in a fringe area about 60 miles from the transmitters. I’ve thought about changing antennas but it is atctually pretty good, just can’t get a lot the stations. Really don’t need much more in th3 bathroom and kitchen and the wife is happy at this point. So I’m just a little in limbo and just not motivated for much more. I hardly watch it any more except weather and local news.
The “antenna man” on you tube will do an analysis and make antenna recommendations but suggests there is another big shift coming in on air service. So I’ll just wait for now.

[RandomTroll]

@glasspilot

Do you notice pumps still have the 9/10 of a cent at the end?

I remember when it wasn’t always 9/10, as I suspect most here do.

@johnlump_191311

100% ethanol

109 octane number. A station in Albuquerque sells 105 octane avgas, right on the corner.

[ChrisTheTireWhisperer]

@Nevada_545

The question remains unanswered: why did someone release air from the tires on your car?

Where did you get that nonsense from?!

I repeatedly stated how tires, all specified by the car builder to be 32psi, could end up at four disparate pressures.

Someone in a hurry to get the job done, a cheap gauge with wide range of read variability, a ‘goodnuff’ attitude.

This never happened in the case of my Honda, because I would ever let it happen.

I was just posing a scenario of how it could happen. Do you now get it? Nobody touched my tires and futzed with the pressures.

[Nevada_545]

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

@Nevada_545

The question remains unanswered: why did someone release air from the tires on your car?

Where did you get that nonsense from?!

From you:

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

I don’t understand the attitude that it’s ok, on my 32psi Accord, for one tire to be 30, another, 35, another, 28, and onther, 31.

For me, that’s just sloppy and lazy.

So now you say it didn’t happen but could happen because people are sloppy and lazy.

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

Someone in a hurry to get the job done, a cheap gauge with wide range of read variability, a ‘goodnuff’ attitude.

Nothing but speculation, get some real shop experience before lecturing others.

[ChrisTheTireWhisperer]

I never said it happened to me. I was using my car and tire pressures as an example, based on some of the commentary expressed here, that’s it’s ok if the cold set tire pressures are all over the place.

It never happens to me because, unlike 80 percent of the driving or riding population, inside CarTalk and at large, I routinely check my tire pressures, and set if necessary if they’re off significantly.

[MikeInNH]

@bing

All of the networks changed to digital transmission. The old tvs are worthless and don’t work.

There are converters to convert the digital signal to an analog signal.

Amazon.com : digital to analog tv converter box

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

They went digital because they had to get people to buy new TVs again.

NO. They went digital to free up more of the spectrum to be used for other things. Cellphone technology was growing so fast it needed these frequencies.

@ChrisTheTireWhisperer

CRT ‘tube’ technology was stagnant:

CRT technology only went stagnant in the consumer space. There were still research and new technology done at the high-end high-tech space. When flat-screen TV’s came out to compete the the CRT the Plazma didn’ didn’t have the minute detail a CRT could provide (in some circumstances). Companies like Best-Buy and Circuit City jumped on the flat screen technology mainly because of wearhouse space. You can store a lot of flat-screen TVs in the same space as a CRT and about 1/10th the weight. Companies like Best-buy Circuit City and Walmart really pushed the flat-screen technology to consumers. Even if they sold the TV less of a profit margin over CRT TV, they were still making more money overall because of warehouse costs. Besides space you didn’t need 2 guys and maybe a hand truck to haul a 50” CRT TV. Those suckers can weigh several hundred lbs. The companies selling TV’s were the ones really pushing the flat-screen TVs.

[bing]

Heh heh. My son had a very large crt tv. When it was time to go, the guy at the recycling center brought the dozer to load it off the trailer. Yeah heavy.

[VDCdriver]

@MikeInNH

Besides space you didn’t need 2 guys and maybe a hand truck to haul a 50” CRT TV. Those suckers can weigh several hundred lbs.

+1
The last CRT that I bought, in 1996, was a state-of-the-art (for the time) Sony large screen TV. My friend and I had to take a break midway through hauling it from his Explorer to my living room because it was so incredibly heavy.

And, needless to say, the picture quality/resolution of my current LG OLED TV is lightyears better than what that very expensive SONY of the '90s could produce.

[VOLVO-V70]

@VDCdriver

And, needless to say, the picture quality/resolution of my current LG OLED TV is lightyears better than what that very expensive SONY of the '90s could produce.

Why would anyone think otherwise ? Oh wait , there are at least two of those .

[johnlump_191311]

@bing

I’m sorry to sound casual about it but I’m to the point where close enough is close enough. I was doing final prep on my snow blower and put air in the tires for the first time in about five years. Yeah it needed a little air. So while I was at it I did the cars. Pontiac is 30 all around. Acura is 35 front and 33 rear. So I set them accordingly. But then when I drive the tpms always is a pound or two different. I just chalk it up to tire temp and cheap pressure gauge. I’m more concerned about whether I’m loosing pressure and really have found no handling Issue regardless.

I doubt the tpms is any more accurate than a typical tire gauge so I’m not surprised you’d see a pound or two difference.

I recently bought three digital temp gauges for the house . I only wanted one but they came in packs of three. Each one was a degree different. Close enough given they were under 2 bucks each. The tpms are also probably that cheap.