Service & Repair
By Richard Fisher • 3 hours ago
Ah, flat screen TV … just what so many were waiting for to put on the wall, mostly inspired by Hollywood and television programs over the decades.
Yep, putting that flat screen on your wall is the Buck Rogers thing to do for so many of us.
What most people don’t know is that by doing so you have made yourself responsible for additional services and charges if the product fails.
All service programs...
Service & Repair
By Richard Fisher • Aug 7, 3:51pm
If you suspect lamp failure the first step is to check your owner's manual, which will tell you how to read/interpret the indicator lights on the front of your TV or on your front projector.
If you do not have the owners manual, odds are very high you can find it on the internet and download it.
Manufacturers often times provide these manuals on their web sites.
A lamp timer...
Service & Repair
By Richard Fisher • Jun 12 2008, 7:32pm
The infamous CRT rear projector, whether NTSC or HDTV, remains one of the greatest display products to have hit the consumer market.
They lasted over two decades until the flat panel display phenomenon wiped them out.
The same can be said of CRT direct view, the TVs we all grew up on.
While big, bulky and heavy, these displays could deliver some great imaging, producing bright dynamic pictures and inky blacks in medium to dark ambient light environments.
For rear projection, smaller sizes (below 50") could even perform well in brighter environments.
CRT rear projection and direct view technolo ...
Blu-ray
By Richard Fisher • Mar 11 2008, 4:35pm
With one war over and Blu-ray taking victory, there is yet another war brewing in the background ...
or is there? The new question being asked by the rank and file is whether or not there is even a future for packaged media.
Can you imagine a day where nobody physically rents a movie? Some are.
Historically, this battle has been ongoing via your local cable system or satellite service; it is called Pay Per View (PPV) and Video On Demand (VOD).
While the providers have found great profits in this service and their customers have enjoyed the convenience, it didn't ...
Blu-ray
By Richard Fisher • Nov 21 2007, 8:16am
I typically don't veer from the technical side into opinion, but HDTV Magazine founder Dale Cripps recently posted an article about the HD disc format wars, Blu-ray versus HD DVD, and his choice as to which one would be the winner.
What I loved about his article was that it was not technical and most importantly took the pragmatic stance that he did not feel he should make that choice due to his lack of technical expertise on these two formats yet the industry would rather consumers, who know little about the technical side and far less than Dale, be the ones to make that choice.
As a consumer ...
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