Not if they bought in the last couple of years. New ones search out the
time signals in the space between frames on, mostly, PBS stations and
set themselves. Part of the very evolution you are talking about.
Gregg Iverson wrote:
This reminds me of a comment AT&T made when I was their guest for two
weeks. They wanted to make technology as transparent as the phone.
It took me several hours of pondering to see how important that really
is. Imagine having a computer that was always ready, worked so
effortlessly that you never thought about the equipment except when
the power (or phone lines) was down, and cost next to nothing. I'm
not trying to knock any company. It took a few years for the phones
to get that reliable too. But just imagine ...!
The typical consumer still has a 12:00 flashing on the VCR.
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