A question for TV experts - Page 3

Wes Tausend · #41 (**permalink**) 12-03-2007, 11:54 PM

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Ron,

I never had much trouble with Nero but I'm sure that many other software editing programs would work. When I mentioned I never had a failure in over 100 discs, I meant the SV2000 never failed. My video computer is a different story, with Nero commonly failing "Data Verification" after the Sony DVD burner gets good and hot. Sure enough, the disc has a flaw when played then. I guess I need to add another case fan next time it comes apart.

At any rate I thought an entertainment type DVD video-recorder, with digital tuner, is a good way to ease into off-air digital TV.

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Ron61 · #42 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 02:32 AM

Wes,

I agree that Nero is probably a good program and that is why I bought the full blown program but I just use it on my computer and I don' 't do movies or such. And it didn't seem to ruin the disks, it was just that every once in a while when I got ready to add more files to a disk it would not open it at all. If I messed around long enough it would eventually open it and add the files. The disks were good and for what i do I don't need the full program anyway so decided to try this scaled down version that came on the computer. Of course it has a different format, but once I got everything transferred over, I haven't had but one failure to read in 6 months and I looked at the disk and it was dusty. I just took a can of air and blew it off and it has worked great every since. I am to dumb to get into the complicated world of TV, satellite, DVD, Blue Ray and all of that.

Ron

Bugman · #43 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 06:00 AM

Ron,RCA was a proud name with quality products once.ONCE.It went in the crapper late 60's early 70s.By the early 80s it's TVs were junk and it's cable gear was even worse.Back then the two best sets on the planet were Sony & Curtis Mathis.Sadly,even CM is now gone.

LOL good chance you could get enough to buy a new HDTV.

A 25 year-old RCA?!!You're lucky it was around for 25 minutes.It deserves a proper burial.

Thanks for all the encouragement guys...lol..This set still works great! It is so old that if it weren't for having Direct TV and their remote I'd have to get up and turn the dial on the set to change channels! Some of the yournger members probably don't even remember TV's that worked that way!
But, the thing still works good and I'm a cheap old fart so it might stick around a few more months or until the Smithstonion makes me an offer!

Ron61 · #44 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 06:08 AM

Bugman,

The first TV that I ever saw was in a cabinet about the size of a small bookcase with a 4" screen I think it was and it received 2 channels on a good day. Then my Grandfather got a MODERN one that received several channels and wasn't so bit. I remember taking the old tuners out and cleaning the contacts with a pencil eraser. To have one 25 years old that still works is really something. I even remember people putting colored cellophane paper across the screen to pretend they had color. Of course everything was the color of the paper.

Ron

Bugman · #45 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 08:30 AM

The only problem I've ever had with that TV is we had a lightening strike nearby and I guess it made the color go crazy in one spot. I took a speaker magnet and waved it over the bad area and gradually dragged the messed up color spot out of the picture. You know noe that I'm writing all this the thing is going to blow up!!

Ron61 · #46 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 08:52 AM

Yes, that is a definite possibility. Every time I talk about how well something is lasting or doing, it normally falls apart within a month. I do love the way you fixed your color problem. Did you patent it?

by the way, the magnets out of microwave ovens are much stronger as they run the magnetron tube. I have a couple stuck on my toolbox and have to slide them to get them loose.

Ron

Wes Tausend · #47 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 09:20 AM

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Bugman,

The TV might already be broke if the shadow mask is magnetic.

You probably know this ...but the thermistor on the degaussing coil is probably fried open.

For those that don't know, the degaussing coil is a coil of wire around the front perimeter of any colored CRT picture tube that momentarily produces a strong, but quickly fading magnetic field, to demagnetize the metal in the tube so that the correct electrons hit the right color phosphors without being bent by a stray magnetic field. A loud 60 cycle hum is momentarily heard when the coil first energizes until the inline thermistor gets hot and cuts off current. Unless it is already fried and never passes any current.

Ron,

I suppose you can tell which screwdrivers and wrenches are yours by the way they all swivel to point north when layed down?

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Bugman · #48 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 10:05 AM

Okay stop you jinxing me!! lol It worked just fine when the kids watched Charlie Brown Christmas last night so it's good to go! Come to think of it it was probably made the same year that show came out! The TV in the bedroom is a different story! I've gone through 3 or 4 of them over the last few years. I actually was going to buy a 42" LCD from Wally World back in Oct as a 25th anniversary present for the wife being the romantic that I am! But, she said the other worked fine go buy me the diamonds instead. See how practical she is!

Ron61 · #49 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 11:06 AM

Wes,

My tools just lay even when they should be working. I took that darn automatic screwdriver back to Sears three times because it wouldn't do anything unless I picked it up.

The tools in my computer case all have anti magnetic coverings, so I know them from regular tools plus you can't buy them on the market around here.

Bugman,

Just 21 days until Christmas. Don't over work that TV.

Ron