In the ordinary life of Crayon Shin-chan

Chapter 461 TV Signal Change

At night, Mingxu and his friends were watching TV in the living room. At this time, an advertisement popped up on the TV. It showed a little yellow man with an antenna on his head, holding a radio and shouting, "Dear viewers, can your TV receive terrestrial digital signals?"

"Huh?" Mingxu was confused. When did he miss this news again? How come I didn't know that the TV was going to change the signal? I just didn't watch TV for a few days? After he recovered, the coach pulled him to training every day, saying that he wanted to see if he was slacking off because of his injury.

"If it's still an analog TV, it will look like the above picture after the end of July." As he spoke, a large field of snow appeared on the TV.

"If this logo appears on the screen again, please find a nearby electrical appliance store as soon as possible or ask us." With that, the TV commercial ended.

"Mom, it seems that the TV in our house uses analog signals?" Looking at the logo in the upper right corner of the TV, Mingxu looked at Meiya a little uncertainly and asked.

"That's right, we have this analog signal symbol on our TV at home." Xiaoxin nodded in agreement.

"Yes, I know that, but TVs that can receive digital signals are coming soon, so don't worry, you won't be unable to watch TV." Mei Ya said with a smile.

"Oh? When did you buy it?" Mingxu looked confused. I've only trained for the past few days, why do I feel like I'm out of touch with the times?

"Yeah, when did you buy the new one? That's great! We need to buy a new TV at home." Xiaoxin asked in surprise. Mingxu looked at the confusion and then joy on Xiaoxin's face, and he knew that Xiaoxin was not very clear either. It seemed that he was not taking Xiaoxin with him.

"No, we didn't buy a new TV. Your Akita's grandfather wanted to send his TV to us." Meiya smiled and said, "He said that his neighbor next door bought a TV that was twice as big as his and always showed it off to him, so he also wanted to buy a bigger TV than his, so he decided to give his current TV to us." Meiya explained the whole story.

"Oh! So when will grandpa's TV be delivered?" Mingxu asked puzzledly. He still felt that grandma would not easily agree to let grandpa change the TV.

"...I'm not sure about that." Mei Ya was also a little worried: "If we don't send it over quickly, it might be too late."

"Hmm~ It feels so good after taking a bath." Guangzhi came out after taking a bath.

"Honey, can you please go and urge Dad to send the TV over?" Meiya's eyes lit up when she saw Guangzhi coming out, and she turned to him and said. After all, Guangzhi urging him and she urging him were two different concepts.

"Emm, it should be delivered by now. Okay, I'll call and ask." Guangzhi nodded. He also knew about this matter.

So, Guangzhi brought his two little followers to the phone.

"By the way, Dad, you all have cell phones, why don't you just use them to make the call?" Mingxu asked in confusion as he watched Guangzhi standing here and making a phone call.

"Oh, you're talking about that. I'm not used to using my mobile phone to make calls at home." Guangzhi said with a smile.

"I see." Mingxu nodded. The development of mobile phones is quite fast now. They were still keypad phones some time ago, but recently there seem to be screens that can be clicked, although they are not touch screens yet.

"Hello, is this Dad? I'm Guangzhi, you know..." Guangzhi was speechless.

"Grandpa." Mingxu and Xiaoxin shouted together.

"Oh, are those my two lovely grandchildren on the other end of the phone? Grandpa is here." When Ginnosuke heard the two children's voices, his tone changed.

"Okay, Dad, I want to ask about that TV." Guangzhi asked, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, you said the TV. I can't give it to you. Just pretend I never said that." Ginnosuke shook his head.

"Huh? Why?"

"There's nothing we can do. Your mother said it's not possible. She said we don't need such a big TV at home. This TV is enough for us now. Really. That woman doesn't understand a man's face at all! She doesn't understand a man's romance either!" Ginnosuke immediately started to nag, blaming Nohara Tsuru for not letting him buy a big TV.

"...If that's the case, you should have told us earlier." Guangzhi said helplessly.

"Ah? Didn't I tell you? How could that be? I seemed to have told you." Ginnosuke was confused. Didn't he tell you?

"Grandpa, won't you give us TV?" Xiao Xin asked again after listening for a while.

"It looks like that." Mingxu nodded.

"Xiao Xu and Xiao Xin, there's nothing we can do. This is how things are. Just let your dad buy a new TV." Hearing his two grandsons talking, Ginnosuke pushed away the doubts in his mind and said with a smile.

"...Ah, it seems that this is the only way." Guangzhi shook his head: "Then Dad, I will hang up the phone now, take care of yourself."

"Got it. I think our health is much better than yours. Bye." After saying that, Ginnosuke hung up the phone.

"Beep, beep, beep~" Hearing the sound coming from the microphone, Guangzhi shook his head and put the phone back.

"So are we going to buy a new TV?" Mingxu asked Guangzhi.

"It seems that's right." Guangzhi nodded.

"Let's go and talk to mom." Mingxu spread his hands.

"Yeah, I have to talk to your mother."

So, Meiya in the living room also successfully found out that she had to buy a new TV herself.

"Ah? Why is this happening? You suddenly change your mind now." As expected, Meiya complained.

"There's nothing we can do. Grandma thinks it's a waste for grandpa to buy a big TV." Mingxu spread his hands.

"What about the digital signal?"

"We can only buy a new TV." Guangzhi shook his head.

"...This is the only way." Meiya shook her head. It was impossible that no one at home watched TV.

So, the next day, the family went to a nearby electronics store to choose a suitable TV. At this time, there was less than a week left before the signal change.

"Everyone, come and have a look. We are about to switch to digital signal. Those of you who haven't prepared your TV yet, please act quickly." Such voices kept coming from the electrical appliance store, followed by the sound of transactions being completed.

"It seems like everyone is in a hurry." Mingxu looked at the crowd of people and said, "By the way, we haven't started working on the antenna yet, right?" Suddenly remembering this, Mingxu looked at Meiya.

"Not yet. The aunt next door introduced it to her. This person also helped her family to make it. The quality is quite good. With the introduction of an acquaintance, there is also a discount on the price. He will probably come over to help in the next few days." Meiya said with a smile.

"Oh." Mingxu nodded.

"Every TV here seems to be clearer than the ones at home." Xiaoxin said as he looked at the TV screens around him.

"There's nothing I can do. The TV at home was bought a long time ago and it certainly can't be compared with the new product." Mingxu spread his hands.

“This is also a high-definition digital signal, so it’s very clear,” Hiroshi added.

"So that's how it is. I thought it would only start after a while, but it turns out it can be used already." Mingxu said with some surprise.

"Yes, you can use it now, but you have to use it after a while." Guangzhi nodded.

"But which TV should we choose now? Price is very important." Meiya murmured as she looked at the TVs around her.

"I'll give you some subsidy." Mingxu raised his hand.

"No need. Your father is not so bad that he can't even afford a TV." Guangzhi rolled his eyes.

"This size is about right." He said, looking at a table nearby.

"It's bigger than the one at home, it's okay." Meiya nodded, but when asked about the price, she started to back off.

"Can this price be a little cheaper?"

"Well, this is the only way now." The customer service representative pressed a few more buttons on the calculator, and the numbers changed again, but the change was not big.

"Press it again!" Xiaoxin shouted.

"..This is already the lowest price." The customer service said helplessly.

"Let's take this one." Guangzhi shook his head.

"Okay." Meiya said somewhat unwillingly.

"Thank you for your patronage, but this model is out of stock, so..."

“When will the goods be available?”

"Probably early next month."

"...Change it. Otherwise, you won't be able to catch up with the signal." Mingxu said speechlessly: "See which one is in stock now."

"Well, this TV is in stock." The customer service said, pointing to a large TV nearby.

"...It's too big. It must be expensive."

"Yes.."

"Nothing else?"

"Well, we have it!" After the customer service took them to look at several styles, everyone was a little dissatisfied.

"Oh, your goods are too incomplete." Xiaoxin complained.

"We can't help it. We're just switching to digital serial numbers right now and televisions are in short supply right now." The customer service representative said a little embarrassedly.

“It’s a real headache.”

"Then we won't be able to watch TV at home?" Shin-chan asked Guangzhi.

"I think so."

"How about we go look at other houses?"

"Ah? We still have to go. We've already visited several places." Meiya didn't want to look anymore.

"If all else fails, just try the one we just saw. It's just a little bigger than our TV, so there's no problem! Let me tell you the price." Mingxu said, pointing to the last TV they saw.

"Ah?" The customer service was a little confused after listening to their conversation. Are children richer than adults now?

"There's no other way, let Xiaoxu help." Meiya thought about it and nodded in agreement.

"Thank you for your patronage!" The customer service representative was all smiles when he saw the TV was sold.

After paying the money, I asked the appliance store to send it back. I used the old TV at home to exchange for some money, and my family finally got a new TV.

"Although it is bigger than the original TV, the picture quality seems to be not much different?" Everyone murmured as they looked at the TV screen.

"The digital signal will start to become clear in a few days." Guangzhi nodded.

"Speaking of which, the analog signals that I've been accustomed to for so many years are about to say goodbye to them."

"That's right. Then again, I've always been curious about the difference between analog TV and digital TV."

"..Analog signal: It is a continuous waveform that describes the transmitted data through the transmission mode, frequency and amplitude. It uses continuously changing voltage or current to represent information, such as sound fluctuations are converted into continuous changes in voltage.

Digital signal: It is a discontinuous signal that uses bursts to indicate the content of the transmission. It uses the "on/off" of electricity or the "brightness/extinguishing" of light to indicate that the data is 1 or 0, that is, it uses binary form to encode and transmit information. "Guangzhi explained.

"...I don't understand." Meiya said with a twitching mouth.

"Twisting this way and that is analog TV, and raising your head and chest out is digital TV." Xiaoxin demonstrated the actions.

"This is probably how the signal is transmitted." Mingxu nodded.

"I think I understand now." Meiya nodded.

So in the next few days, the workers came to modify the antenna, and Mingxu and his team successfully saw the digital signal when the signal changed.

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