Toshiba TV29C90 problem; Image fades to black...

[JURB6006]

Jerry is right. I hope you didn't mess with the "DA" values. These are specific
to cabinet design, lens power etc..

The DA settings are specific to a size/geometry, but the other settings are
specific to your set only. We charge well over $100 to straighten it out. It
takes time, and teks are making about $20/hour now, shop chages 3-4 times that
and that is how the rent gets paid.

If you live in or near N.E. Ohio, and if I get the correct DA values we can
pick it up, have it back in a few days and you'll be about $200 out of pocket.
If you messed up any of the DA values, the convergence does not work right.
There are about 50 DA values, but the ones that aren't zero are fairly
critical.

This line of Mits has a very good convergence control set, and if the DA values
are set correctly, will achieve perfect convengence within a millimeter (even
at the edges) when the right guy does it.

You need someone who knows what they are doing.

JURB

 

[Hungry]

DVD players do not emit radiation.

Like CD players, they do have a low power laser, but the power is so
miniscule you could look right into it with no risk of harm.

 

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[Scott in Aztlan]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:41:53 +0200, Alain Beguin <me2@privacy.com> wrote:

"Gary Woods" wrote on 4/08/2003;
Hopefully, only the top-posters who quote the entire original message will
believe it, and it will keep them busy for a while.

Nice reply, Gary.
why do we have such humorless people on Usenet?

A better question is why do we have so many clueless top-posters?

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[Scott in Aztlan]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:56:07 -0700, "eNo" <eNo@aol.com> wrote:

Oh. They were watching a bootleg copy of Gigli, of course.

LOL!!!

GMTA!

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[Michael]

It's a Toshiba CX2778. It only operates on one channel - channel 3 (or
maybe 4?) as it is connected to a VCR which does the channel changing.
I'm sure it isn't the vcr as when I attach a computer (using composite
(rca) video in and audio in) it has the same problems. A while ago - I
had to turn the TV up to max volume for a while. Could that have damaged
it? I'll test out the mono thing tomorrow night. Gotta go to bed now.
Thanks!

"Sofie" <sofie@olypen.com> wrote in
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Michael:
Get into the menu or buttons on the television and switch from Stereo
or SAP ... to the MONO mode.... see if this changes the symptoms.
Does this happen on all channels? Some channels? Doe it happen
with the A/V input? I know it sounds like I am guessing here..... BUT
you did NOT post the MODEL NUMBER. I know that it is obvious to you
that not all 15 year old Toshiba televisions have the same features or
the same circuitry. The more information you post the better will be
the replies. Always post the model number.... always.
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"Michael" <nleahcimathotmaildotcom@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93CBD25D41F51nleahcim@63.240.76.16...
Hi - I have a 27" Toshiba TV that is having some volume problems. It
fluctuates between playing kinda soft, to normal, constantly. Now
that I'm writing this - I think that it might be possible that
perhaps just one speaker is turning on/off. But I'm not sure just
yet. So - where do you think the problem is?

 

[Bill Webb]

Yes, save that analogue test gear. Much like digital TV, us Neanderthals
are here to stay. I've seen every manner of DVD, digital cable, DSS,
DirecTV etc. at friends' and acquaintances' houses. And while they coo
over the stunningly superior digital quality (just as the salesman told
'em , I come to the *shocking* conclusion that they've just traded
one kind of video artifact for another. The slight film-grain appearance
of VHS and white flecks/stripes of scratched analogue laserdisc (and
munched VHSes) is gone, but replaced by that distilled fuzz around the
transitions of any high-contrast image. The blocky, mottled shadows on
the villian's face that pop in and out of existance. The satellite feed
that shatters into a thousand pieces of colorful screen-vomit everytime
the camera pans too fast. I have to wonder sometimes what the big
attraction is.

ever seen a decent video picture. However, because it was "digital"
several viewers proclaimed the VCD to be superior in some
undescribable way.

It's also fun to take an analog VCR NTSC output and display it on an
HDTV screen (re-encoded to MPEG-2 on a computah) and proclaim that the
conversion to digital has somehow "improved" the picture. Duh.

I predict a small market servicing those neanderthals that consider
analog to be superior to (over-compressed) digital (as in the tube
audio fanatics). Perhaps one should save some of the analog test
equipment.

 

[Steve Reinis]

I get such a kick out of Dish Network and DirecTV always spouting off about
the "100% Digital Picture!" they offer and how it's superior to cable.

Oh please...

It's MPEG video compression. It's lousy most of the time for reasons just
as you described. "Pixelation" is ALWAYS easily spotted when watching
almost any channel, whether or not there is fast action, on my 52" RPTV.
You can still see it on my 27" CRT based set if you look closely, but it's
extremely prominent on the big screen. Watching a car race via DSS
irritates the heck out of me!!

Makes me so glad to still have my old 10' Unimesh dish and "ancient" Tracker
8+ C-band receiver! Sure, I put up with a few sparklies, but when the dish
is tuned properly, I think the signal is FAR superior to that 100% digital
picture from my DishNet receiver.

I guess I'm just picky and want/expect a PERFECT picture in all aspects.



"Bill Webb" <spam@cexx.org> wrote in message
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Yes, save that analogue test gear. Much like digital TV, us Neanderthals
are here to stay. I've seen every manner of DVD, digital cable, DSS,
DirecTV etc. at friends' and acquaintances' houses. And while they coo
over the stunningly superior digital quality (just as the salesman told
'em , I come to the *shocking* conclusion that they've just traded
one kind of video artifact for another. The slight film-grain appearance
of VHS and white flecks/stripes of scratched analogue laserdisc (and
munched VHSes) is gone, but replaced by that distilled fuzz around the
transitions of any high-contrast image. The blocky, mottled shadows on
the villian's face that pop in and out of existance. The satellite feed
that shatters into a thousand pieces of colorful screen-vomit everytime
the camera pans too fast. I have to wonder sometimes what the big
attraction is.

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[Leonard Caillouet]

Steve,

Just crank the contrast up until the set defocuses and defocus the blue a
little more, and turn on all of the noise reduction features. Set it up
like they come from the factory and feed it to your set through the tuner
and you won't be able to see the "perfect" pixelation any more. LOL

I completely agree. The digital crap that comes over the satellite services
is hard to watch, as are nearly all of the distortion modes on the newer
sets to fill the screens or convert scan frequencies to the native mode of
each set. Good analog is less obnoxious in many cases. Hopefully, there
will be more wider bandwidth digital available in the future, but I suspect
much of the viewing will be overcompressed like what we see now.

Leonard Caillouet

"Steve Reinis" <noemail@all.com> wrote in message
news:bgnqt901rvo@enews3.newsguy.com...

I get such a kick out of Dish Network and DirecTV always spouting off
about
the "100% Digital Picture!" they offer and how it's superior to cable.

Oh please...

It's MPEG video compression. It's lousy most of the time for reasons just
as you described. "Pixelation" is ALWAYS easily spotted when watching
almost any channel, whether or not there is fast action, on my 52" RPTV.
You can still see it on my 27" CRT based set if you look closely, but it's
extremely prominent on the big screen. Watching a car race via DSS
irritates the heck out of me!!

Makes me so glad to still have my old 10' Unimesh dish and "ancient"
Tracker
8+ C-band receiver! Sure, I put up with a few sparklies, but when the
dish
is tuned properly, I think the signal is FAR superior to that 100% digital
picture from my DishNet receiver.

I guess I'm just picky and want/expect a PERFECT picture in all aspects.



"Bill Webb" <spam@cexx.org> wrote in message
news:bgno0i$2cj$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net...
Yes, save that analogue test gear. Much like digital TV, us Neanderthals
are here to stay. I've seen every manner of DVD, digital cable, DSS,
DirecTV etc. at friends' and acquaintances' houses. And while they coo
over the stunningly superior digital quality (just as the salesman told
'em , I come to the *shocking* conclusion that they've just traded
one kind of video artifact for another. The slight film-grain appearance
of VHS and white flecks/stripes of scratched analogue laserdisc (and
munched VHSes) is gone, but replaced by that distilled fuzz around the
transitions of any high-contrast image. The blocky, mottled shadows on
the villian's face that pop in and out of existance. The satellite feed
that shatters into a thousand pieces of colorful screen-vomit everytime
the camera pans too fast. I have to wonder sometimes what the big
attraction is.


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[Impmon]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 13:12:13 -0500, americanfamilyagent207@livewire.com
typed:

player became cracked during the fall to the floor, emitting the fatal
radiation which killed the entire family of seven.
[snip]

I'm having a hard time with that. Granted the laser inside the DVD
player is harmful but unless you looked directly at the laster, you
won't be harmed by a cracked case. I've had the case off of my DVD
player for a few days when I was trying to get the spindle working and
I'm doing fine.

There is no way the radiation from the player can killthe whole family.
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[Laurence Payne]

player became cracked during the fall to the floor, emitting the fatal
radiation which killed the entire family of seven.
[snip]

I'm having a hard time with that. Granted the laser inside the DVD
player is harmful but unless you looked directly at the laster, you
won't be harmed by a cracked case. I've had the case off of my DVD
player for a few days when I was trying to get the spindle working and
I'm doing fine.

There is no way the radiation from the player can killthe whole family.

Could it kill a few of them, do you think?

 

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 11:27:08 GMT, Impmon <Impmon@tds.net> wrote:

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 13:12:13 -0500, americanfamilyagent207@livewire.com
typed:

player became cracked during the fall to the floor, emitting the fatal
radiation which killed the entire family of seven.
[snip]

I'm having a hard time with that. Granted the laser inside the DVD
player is harmful but unless you looked directly at the laster, you
won't be harmed by a cracked case. I've had the case off of my DVD
player for a few days when I was trying to get the spindle working and
I'm doing fine.

There is no way the radiation from the player can killthe whole family.

Being a physics teacher, let me explain something.

A laser can go through the smallest hole, and if the disk is rotating
inside, the laser beams can be reflected at millions of different
angles, and many thousand times per second. Thus the laser beams
could spew out of that crack like bullets coming out of a machine gun.
Anyone in the path of these beams are instantly history. So, yes it
can kill a whole family and even a whole stadium full of people in
seconds. Lasers are dangerous and if one gets out of control, like
apparently this one did, there is no telling who or what will be
killed or destroyed.

 

[Gary Woods]

Scott in Aztlan <qinencnyn@lnubb.pbz> wrote:

why do we have so many clueless top-posters?

80% of everything is crap.
50% of the population is below average.
A lot of people don't get humor that doesn't have a laugh track.

But I repeat myself.
Again.

I gotta go....


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[Jeeters]

At least with these DVD lasers, the cuts are usually pretty clean making the
prognosis for reattachment of fingers and/or limbs pretty good.

"Hank" <hank@arlen.com> wrote in message
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Bet it was an Apex brand. I have one with a flaky laser and it severed a
finger
once when I reached for the DVD disc too soon.


A New Mexico family was killed by a DVD player last Friday.

 

[Sam Goldwasser]

physics-teacher@rooseveltHS.edu writes:

Being a physics teacher, let me explain something.

A laser can go through the smallest hole, and if the disk is rotating
inside, the laser beams can be reflected at millions of different
angles, and many thousand times per second. Thus the laser beams
could spew out of that crack like bullets coming out of a machine gun.
Anyone in the path of these beams are instantly history. So, yes it
can kill a whole family and even a whole stadium full of people in
seconds. Lasers are dangerous and if one gets out of control, like
apparently this one did, there is no telling who or what will be
killed or destroyed.

And a flock of pigs was just sighted flying over the that stadium
on its seasonal migration, somehow missing those deadly beams....

I pity anyone who takes any of your classes.

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[Wayne Tiffany]

So my question to the group is "What causes the oily residue?" On mine it
really looked like someone had coated the board with a lightweight oil.
Sounds like George found the same thing. The only thing I can figure is
that the rubber switch membrane is leaching out some type of oily substance
as a result of being a petroleum based item???? Any other ideas?

WT

"George Earl" <gearl@comcast.net> wrote in message
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On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:30:57 -0400, George Earl <gearl@comcast.net
wrote:

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:19:29 -0500, "Wayne Tiffany"
wayne.tiffany@asi.com> wrote:

Sometimes a cleaning is all that's needed - I just did ours about 2
weeks
ago. Take it apart and wash the case and membrane switch with soapy
water.
Then clean the circuit board pads with alcohol. Dry everything and
reassemble. Ours had some kind of oily film on most of it - who knows
what
kind of stuff was spilled on it. :-!

The other possibility is that the carbon pads on the circuit board are
worn
away enough to barely contact. If so, sometimes you can work a small
bit of
graphite into that area to provide some conduction.

WT


Thanks!


George
gearlnospamno@nospamcomcast.net

Disassembled the remote, found oily residue on the circuit board all
around the contacts for the Channel and Volume buttons, cleaned with
alcohol, reassembled and all is right with the world again . . .
Thanks!


George
gearlnospamno@nospamcomcast.net

 

[Scott in Aztlan]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 08:53:05 -0400, Gary Woods <gwoods@spamfree.albany.net>
wrote:

50% of the population is below average.

LOL!!!

That's a common error, especially among those with below average intelligence.


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[Dick Sidbury]

Scott in Aztlan wrote:

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 08:53:05 -0400, Gary Woods <gwoods@spamfree.albany.net
wrote:


50% of the population is below average.


LOL!!!

That's a common error, especially among those with below average intelligence.


True. He should have said that 50% of the population is above average.

but everyone makes misteaks.

dick

 

[Kevin G. Rhoads]

Post in alt.folklore.urban where such stuff is appropriate.

 

[Laurence Payne]

Well, he's done it again. A spoof post so obviously intended as a joke has
sucked in supposedly intelligent technically minded folks into thinking it's
a genuine case, and yet again we get a flood of ill-tempered technical
rebuttals. Jeez, my 10 year old daughter read it and realised straight away
it was a laugh, nothing more. What the heck is wrong with you people?

There's obviously a need for some of you to get out more, relax and smile
once in a while, if you don't find this guys posts amusing, fine. However
responding in a serious manner just makes you look like nerdy idiots.

Did you HAVE to spoil it?