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    Why is it so much more expensive than cable?

    My opinion is this is very much influenced by where someone lives. In the larger cities and metro areas things are better price wise and usually quality wise. In the little tiny rural town where I live, the only cable company is Northland Cable, and they don't offer any HD at all in my town...
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    Scamed by a GE extended warranty.

    Yep! The DirecTV Protection Plan is probably superior from a service point of view, but an economist could likely prove that financially it's the most expensive. The truth is most electronic widgets are extraordinarily reliable, and any warranty purchased by the consumer (beyond the...
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    Scamed by a GE extended warranty.

    Yes. Nearly 100% of the extended warranties on products are provided by 3rd party companies. The retailer offering the extended warranty is paid a commission by the 3rd party company for each extended warranty they sell. That's why many of them (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.) push them so hard.
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    Who does and does not use "Native Mode"?

    I have an LCD RPTV (Hitachi) and when I had a HTL-HD Hughes receiver connected to it, I set it to Native. My LCD TV is 720p, and I found its internal scaler to be far superior to the scaler in the Hughes, so I let it convert the 1080i to 720p and the 480i to 480p. I found that when I set the...
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