RCA F38310 38" 16:9 HDTV with Built-In DirecTV and HDTV Receivers
Why No Video Out?  Guess
I have owned my F3810 for about 15 months, and I concur with most of the glowing assessments of the HDTV picture quality and other features of the set.  But the complete lack of video-out<BR>connectors is a major omission and not, I think, an accident.  When I purchased my set, I was encouraged to purchase something called Ultimate DirecTV (an RCA/Microsoft knock-off of TiVo) that would require installation of a second satellite dish.  I declined, thinking I might do that later.  For some reason the<BR>Ultimate DirecTV is no longer offered in the stores I visit, and there seems no way for me to install a legitimate TiVo<BR>receiver.  Worst of all is that I have never gotten a response to any question or complaint I have addressed to RCA/Thomson.<BR>For that reason alone I would never buy another of their products.