Do you own a Plasma, LCD, CRT, Projection television?

EscapeVelocity · 10-06-2009, 06:30 PM

Self explanatory....you can vote for more than one. Please give details in the body of your post response.

Note: Projection includes rear projection/projector or front projection/projector, crt, lcd, and dlp engine.

I own 2 LCDs, both 42" Vizios and a Optoma H31 480p 16:9 DLP Front Projector.

Id like to sell the older Vizio and get a Panasonic Professional Plasma in 50" 720p or 1080p or Vizio 505 Plasma with a Panasonic 1080p panel and Reon HQV processing.

Or maybe a 32" Plasma, Vizio/Insignia.

Orrymain · 10-07-2009, 12:28 AM

My primary is a nice 50" projection but it's dying now. I need it to hang in there for a while longer though until I can afford to replace it, and that's gonna be a while. My sister purchased a 32" LCD for me over the summer which is the secondary TV. I love it, but it is weird watching what I perceive to be a rectangular view. Everyone looks so broad.

DTVuser2009 · 10-07-2009, 07:54 AM

Old CRTs for me now and forever. i don't think i can afford a new LCD/Plasma and i heard they don't live for 20 years, and call me old fashioned, but i buy stuff with no intention of replacing it. i don't believe in 'product lifecycles'

Orrymain · 10-07-2009, 06:57 PM

I actually agree with you. I don't have the finances to buy a new TV every 5 years or whatever it is. Why do you think I'm on an ancient computer using Win98? I love my big screen, but it is dying, unfortunately. I have that blue outline stuff and 2 of the extra inputs don't work properly with the volume, making them unusable for the most part.

EscapeVelocity · 10-07-2009, 07:12 PM

DTVUser, did you forget to vote CRT?

DTVuser2009 · 10-08-2009, 06:14 AM

not anymore.

I wish i could figure out how to install Windows 98 on my Acer Aspire One netbook. i mean XP can be tweaked to act as if it still were Win98 (with a lot of registry hacks, which i have done) but i'd rather have the real deal. i think the furthest i could go back and still have drivers for Video, sound, and the multi-in-one card reader is Win2K, which is just XP without the extras, and exactly what it acts like now.

I only upgrade when i choose too when i desire the features and that's why i was against the mandated DTV transition (and i still lament the 2008 end of analog cellular-- a FAR SUPERIOR system IMO and the phones were tons more rugged and couldn't be broken) but i do like DTV itself. just not forced upon us.

I only wish that there was some sort of a converter for analog cell phones. they were great phones that could be dropped, frozen, beat on, smashed and got signal everywhere you went. if i could figure it out, and since the AMPS mobile phone is merely an advanced FM transceiver operating in the 900MHz bands, i could probably use one or two as a two-way radio but i don't know how yet.

Orry, the blue outline is misaligned convergence. it's adjustable if you like getting inside TVs. i myself hate repairing TVs for good reason (the high voltage can kill) but sometimes i'm forced to. the vertical sync in my Curtis Mathes console had to be resoldered because it kept going to a flat horizontal line but it works now)

I hate seeing this society getting wasteful. i am all for 'going green' but tossing tech out every year or so is worse than the extra coal needed to power an older appliance for it's much longer lifetime.

--and, a plasma/LCD TV contains much more mercury than a CFL bulb. much more than a linear fluorescent tube. and how many people you suppose would go the extra length to properly recycle dead tech? i don't like anyone butting into our lives, even if it is Uncle Sam.

Orrymain · 10-09-2009, 04:35 AM

Once upon a time, they looked at it, and the blue thing couldn't be fixed. I think in part it's a part deal. They don't make anything for this TV anymore. Honestly, I don't recall the specifics anymore. I'm just hoping it lasts a little while longer! ;}

DTVuser2009 · 10-09-2009, 10:18 AM

Repair shops, especially today in digital world, will try and tell you that in order to boost sales of newer TVs. they don't even give any time for those still using a VCR either. I can fix a VCR easy. a little alcohol and a rag and those old rubber idler tires are fixed (and that fixes the rewind too)

Convergence is very complicated. there's tabs on the flyback yoke that adjusts it but it takes a lot of skill or you get double-ghosts or something.

If it's a projection TV, what normally happens at the end of life of either one of the three separate picture tubes (red/green/blue) is that they dry out and you get really 'foggy' pictures or a picture only useable in the very center. that's not economical to fix.

Orrymain · 10-10-2009, 06:28 PM

That's it! That's what broken -- that blue thing. I didn't have it repaired or looked at by a place that sells new TV's for me. They actually did some repairs at the time. It was too their advantage to try and fix it, financially, but they couldn't get the replacement light or whatever it is -- the blue thing. They don't make it anymore. It's lasted a very long time, just with the blue thing. The second input has only just gone wonky this year. It's frustrating because I can't record on the VCR anymore. Well, I can, but the volume doesn't work.