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My old Sony Wega Trinitron HD tv finally started acting up. a couple seconds after I turned it on it would shut off.. I had a couple seconds of audio but no picture.
After exploring a couple of self help sites, I decided to move on up to the 21st century and get an LED TV. Decided on an LG 47" 'Smart TV' It has multiple USB and HDMI inputs for I can play the series and movies my son downloads on his computer and brings to me on a thumb drive... such as Sons of Anarchy. I now have it hooked up to my wireless computer router so I can load Netflix, YouTube etc. It was only $100.00 more than the standard 47" HDTV so I hope it's worth it. Anyone have suggestions on uses.. so far I haven't found out if I can monitor newsgroups while enjoying network viewing. Oh yeah.. that old tube style TV that served so well for 8 years... loaded it and the wife's tv on my Mission utility trailer for a last trip to the electronic recycle depot. That thing weighed 142 pounds... I could feel it in my back the next day. |
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On 10/15/2013 8:56 AM, True North wrote:
My old Sony Wega Trinitron HD tv finally started acting up. a couple seconds after I turned it on it would shut off.. I had a couple seconds of audio but no picture. After exploring a couple of self help sites, I decided to move on up to the 21st century and get an LED TV. Decided on an LG 47" 'Smart TV' It has multiple USB and HDMI inputs for I can play the series and movies my son downloads on his computer and brings to me on a thumb drive... such as Sons of Anarchy. I now have it hooked up to my wireless computer router so I can load Netflix, YouTube etc. It was only $100.00 more than the standard 47" HDTV so I hope it's worth it. Anyone have suggestions on uses.. so far I haven't found out if I can monitor newsgroups while enjoying network viewing. Oh yeah.. that old tube style TV that served so well for 8 years... loaded it and the wife's tv on my Mission utility trailer for a last trip to the electronic recycle depot. That thing weighed 142 pounds... I could feel it in my back the next day. Years ago we had a CRT (cathode ray tube for the younger crowd) color studio monitor. No tuner ... that was a separate unit that also allowed other video inputs. The picture and color on the monitor was absolutely the best I've ever seen, including all the new plasma, LCD and LED flat panels. It was not high definition by today's standards but had very high contrast ... black was really black and the color fidelity was spectacular. We used it for years until it finally gave up the ghost. I believe it was made by JVC for network use in TV broadcasting stations. |
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On 10/15/2013 8:56 AM, True North wrote:
My old Sony Wega Trinitron HD tv finally started acting up. a couple seconds after I turned it on it would shut off.. I had a couple seconds of audio but no picture. After exploring a couple of self help sites, I decided to move on up to the 21st century and get an LED TV. Decided on an LG 47" 'Smart TV' It has multiple USB and HDMI inputs for I can play the series and movies my son downloads on his computer and brings to me on a thumb drive... such as Sons of Anarchy. I now have it hooked up to my wireless computer router so I can load Netflix, YouTube etc. It was only $100.00 more than the standard 47" HDTV so I hope it's worth it. Anyone have suggestions on uses.. so far I haven't found out if I can monitor newsgroups while enjoying network viewing. Oh yeah.. that old tube style TV that served so well for 8 years... loaded it and the wife's tv on my Mission utility trailer for a last trip to the electronic recycle depot. That thing weighed 142 pounds... I could feel it in my back the next day. BTW, the old Sony Trinitron TVs were actually fairly lightweight compared to non-Trinitron CRT sets of the same size. Sony's Trinitron design utilized one electron "gun" instead of three used in conventional sets. The one gun design eliminated the requirement to "converge" three independent electron beams, one each for blue, green and red through the mask resulting in a much clearer and focused picture. Perfect convergence using three guns was impossible to achieve on a curved screen and if you looked closely at the edges, you could see three independent dots of blue, green and red. |
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:56:59 -0700 (PDT), True North wrote:
My old Sony Wega Trinitron HD tv finally started acting up. a couple seconds after I turned it on it would shut off.. I had a couple seconds of audio but no picture. After exploring a couple of self help sites, I decided to move on up to the 21st century and get an LED TV. Decided on an LG 47" 'Smart TV' It has multiple USB and HDMI inputs for I can play the series and movies my son downloads on his computer and brings to me on a thumb drive... such as Sons of Anarchy. I now have it hooked up to my wireless computer router so I can load Netflix, YouTube etc. It was only $100.00 more than the standard 47" HDTV so I hope it's worth it. Anyone have suggestions on uses.. so far I haven't found out if I can monitor newsgroups while enjoying network viewing. Oh yeah.. that old tube style TV that served so well for 8 years... loaded it and the wife's tv on my Mission utility trailer for a last trip to the electronic recycle depot. That thing weighed 142 pounds... I could feel it in my back the next day. I can't imagine anyone wanting to monitor newsgroups while watching TV. You select an input; HDMI, TV, Computer, etc, and whatever is connected will be what the TV shows. I've never heard of one on which you can display multiple inputs, but maybe yours is 'smart' enough to do that. John H. -- Hope you're having a great day! |
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:12:08 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 10/15/2013 8:56 AM, True North wrote: My old Sony Wega Trinitron HD tv finally started acting up. a couple seconds after I turned it on it would shut off.. I had a couple seconds of audio but no picture. After exploring a couple of self help sites, I decided to move on up to the 21st century and get an LED TV. Decided on an LG 47" 'Smart TV' It has multiple USB and HDMI inputs for I can play the series and movies my son downloads on his computer and brings to me on a thumb drive... such as Sons of Anarchy. I now have it hooked up to my wireless computer router so I can load Netflix, YouTube etc. It was only $100.00 more than the standard 47" HDTV so I hope it's worth it. Anyone have suggestions on uses.. so far I haven't found out if I can monitor newsgroups while enjoying network viewing. Oh yeah.. that old tube style TV that served so well for 8 years... loaded it and the wife's tv on my Mission utility trailer for a last trip to the electronic recycle depot. That thing weighed 142 pounds... I could feel it in my back the next day. Years ago we had a CRT (cathode ray tube for the younger crowd) color studio monitor. No tuner ... that was a separate unit that also allowed other video inputs. The picture and color on the monitor was absolutely the best I've ever seen, including all the new plasma, LCD and LED flat panels. It was not high definition by today's standards but had very high contrast ... black was really black and the color fidelity was spectacular. We used it for years until it finally gave up the ghost. I believe it was made by JVC for network use in TV broadcasting stations. We've still got an old JVC in the basement that my wife watches while scrapbooking. She's very happy with it, using rabbit ears, and has no desire for a nice little flat screen. BTW, if your wife ever says she's taking up scrapbooking to save room by using only the 'best' pictures, don't believe a word of it. John H. -- Hope you're having a great day! |
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On 10/15/2013 9:21 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/15/2013 8:56 AM, True North wrote: My old Sony Wega Trinitron HD tv finally started acting up. a couple seconds after I turned it on it would shut off.. I had a couple seconds of audio but no picture. After exploring a couple of self help sites, I decided to move on up to the 21st century and get an LED TV. Decided on an LG 47" 'Smart TV' It has multiple USB and HDMI inputs for I can play the series and movies my son downloads on his computer and brings to me on a thumb drive... such as Sons of Anarchy. I now have it hooked up to my wireless computer router so I can load Netflix, YouTube etc. It was only $100.00 more than the standard 47" HDTV so I hope it's worth it. Anyone have suggestions on uses.. so far I haven't found out if I can monitor newsgroups while enjoying network viewing. Oh yeah.. that old tube style TV that served so well for 8 years... loaded it and the wife's tv on my Mission utility trailer for a last trip to the electronic recycle depot. That thing weighed 142 pounds... I could feel it in my back the next day. BTW, the old Sony Trinitron TVs were actually fairly lightweight compared to non-Trinitron CRT sets of the same size. Sony's Trinitron design utilized one electron "gun" instead of three used in conventional sets. The one gun design eliminated the requirement to "converge" three independent electron beams, one each for blue, green and red through the mask resulting in a much clearer and focused picture. Perfect convergence using three guns was impossible to achieve on a curved screen and if you looked closely at the edges, you could see three independent dots of blue, green and red. Donnie must have been the last luddite to exit the stone age. |
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On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:31:03 UTC-3, wrote:
snip... Do these TVs have a blue tooth mouse and keyboard? No, 'smart' remote acts as a pointer for on screen keyboard. Still fiddling with it. |
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On 10/15/2013 8:56 AM, True North wrote: My old Sony Wega Trinitron HD tv finally started acting up. a couple seconds after I turned it on it would shut off.. I had a couple seconds of audio but no picture. After exploring a couple of self help sites, I decided to move on up to the 21st century and get an LED TV. Decided on an LG 47" 'Smart TV' It has multiple USB and HDMI inputs for I can play the series and movies my son downloads on his computer and brings to me on a thumb drive... such as Sons of Anarchy. I now have it hooked up to my wireless computer router so I can load Netflix, YouTube etc. It was only $100.00 more than the standard 47" HDTV so I hope it's worth it. Anyone have suggestions on uses.. so far I haven't found out if I can monitor newsgroups while enjoying network viewing. Oh yeah.. that old tube style TV that served so well for 8 years... loaded it and the wife's tv on my Mission utility trailer for a last trip to the electronic recycle depot. That thing weighed 142 pounds... I could feel it in my back the next day. BTW, the old Sony Trinitron TVs were actually fairly lightweight compared to non-Trinitron CRT sets of the same size. Sony's Trinitron design utilized one electron "gun" instead of three used in conventional sets. The one gun design eliminated the requirement to "converge" three independent electron beams, one each for blue, green and red through the mask resulting in a much clearer and focused picture. Perfect convergence using three guns was impossible to achieve on a curved screen and if you looked closely at the edges, you could see three independent dots of blue, green and red. Sony produced the Sun Microsystems 20" monitors in the mid 90's and they were freaking heavy *******s. They weighted about 60 to 70 lbs each. http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/sun/gdm20d10.html |
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