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Olevia provides people in the market for an HDTV a budget option. In the future, the ATSC boxes will be fairly cheap considering you can buy ones for you computer for ~$80 now. Plus most people looking for HD content use Cable or Satelite and those require boxes.

Budget TVs like these are like Hondas... they are cheap and reliable and as you get money and more into the game, you can customize it to your own needs... tuners, HD Players, Recievers, etc...

I think it sucks that the FCC feels they need to go to this extreme if the boxes say what standards work...
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It shouldn't be more than $50 for this TV and considering the average person, there is no reason not to include it on any TV. In fact you can buy 13-inch TV's with ATSC tuners for less than $150.]]>Jun 8th 2007 10:58AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/07/maxent-and-olevia-fined-for-trafficking-analog-tvs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/07/maxent-and-olevia-fined-for-trafficking-analog-tvs/
however, I paid $450 for my 32" HDTV... brand new. The next closest price I've seen was $500 refurbished... and $600+ for new. Those TVs came with tuners, mine didn't, but I didn't have a need for one since I have an HTPC. I was able to save $150 on a new HDTV. I was able to put equiptment of my choosing into a TV with just the bare minimum. My Reciever has all my Video/Audio connections I need and my HTPC takes care of my Tuner and HD Movie needs.

So in the end, I think companies shouldn't be forced to put things like tuners into their equiptment as long as the price reflects the missing features.]]>Jun 8th 2007 11:20AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/07/maxent-and-olevia-fined-for-trafficking-analog-tvs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/07/maxent-and-olevia-fined-for-trafficking-analog-tvs/Jun 8th 2007 12:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/07/maxent-and-olevia-fined-for-trafficking-analog-tvs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/07/maxent-and-olevia-fined-for-trafficking-analog-tvs/Jul 20th 2007 12:58AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/07/maxent-and-olevia-fined-for-trafficking-analog-tvs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/06/07/maxent-and-olevia-fined-for-trafficking-analog-tvs/
As for having an analog tuner...who cares? I don't watch TV but if I did, I'd get an HD cable or satalite reciever. Olevia provides cheap, good HDTVs for the masses, let them continue doing what they do. Albiet they should have to mark their products as such.

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Either you have NO tuner, or an analog AND digital (and soon to be just digital) tuner.]]>Jun 10th 2007 8:51AM