I am not coverting my computer into a tv set. Alan ALWAYS watches tv on the computer. Everything that is broadcast on our tv is usually available online. I've watched Dancing with the Stars, Eureka (from the Sci Fi Channel), etc. So I don't need to convert my computer so I can watch tv. We already do this.

I just want to know the following. Can I walk into any tv store that sells 37 inch Flat Panel TVs. Can I buy one of those? Can I then hook it up to my vcr (exactly the way it's hooked up now),

I have Directv, NOT CABLE. So that's not changing.

I do not want an high definition service. I'm perfectly happy with the image I get now on my tv.

So when I DO buy my new BIG tv, and it's a HD tv, will I still be able to view the tv show IF I DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO ANY HD SERVICE.

Clear??????

And I don't live in a building. I live in a private house. So there's no cable guy coming to fix anyone's cable.

I do howver, hook up my own multiswitches, change coaxial cables (bet you thought I was dumb, hah??? lol).

Let me tell you, without me, Alan wouldn't be able to watch tv.

The other day I told him 'Alan when they stop making vcrs, and we can't buy any more, we'll have to buy one of thse DVD DVrs, or one of those dual DVD/VHS things, and we can play our tapes and record to a DVD rewritable rom"

Guess what Alan said?

"I have no idea what you just said and I'm sacred to death if something happens to you, how do you hook up anything, I don't know how to do anything". And I burst out laughing.

I am now showing him how to hook up VCRs. Yeah right!!!!

lol

Melody