Cafad Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 It is truly a sad day. My faithful old LG has started making marbles-chucked-into-a-computer-fan type noises. I checked the cooling fan and it is not the culprit so it must be the colour wheel, and that is not a good thing. I really liked my old DLP rear projection TV, at the time (which was 2007) it was about a third of the price of a 50 inch plasma so it was well priced, and bigger at 56 inch, at 720p it was higher definition than I required (I still only have 2 blu ray discs) at the time and it was capable of both analog and digital tuning. But it seems we will share a lounge no more, I very much doubt it can be fixed (feel free to prove me wrong here guys, I'd like nothing more) for a reasonable price. It may just be time for me to "convert" to LCD. Time for a beer I think. Here's to the old TV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Vandelay Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Life's Gone? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafad Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Life's Gone? Well... Life was good while it lasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ENIGMA Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Sometimes you just have to Let Go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Long Gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafad Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Stupid, watery-arsed, tiny, little, underpants wearing, backup TV. I actually had to zoom in the camera to get it to fill the frame, can you believe it? That never would have been needed in the good old days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telecine Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 (edited) The upside is that your speakers might image better with the behemoth gone. Edited November 18, 2014 by Telecine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafad Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 The upside is that your speakers might image better with the behemoth gone. You know, that does help, thanks John! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafad Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 It does seem to be a better room for music now, but... but... the screen is so small, and the sound is so big... it just isn't right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafad Posted November 19, 2014 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 OK, I've ordered a new 55 inch LCD, nice and cheap at $1280. And a wall mounting kit, might as well try to keep that imaging if I can. It's only a full HD resolution model but who really cares, I'm not likely to have a need for 4k until at least 3 years after it is superseded for the second time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafad Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 And now my backup TV has failed. The 32 inch LCD has started ghosting, holding a 5 second old image over the currently showing one. Also after about 10 minutes of operation the brightness ramps up to 100% and then back down all the way and starts again, it takes about 5 seconds to cycle through. This sucks! Time to resort to the secondary backup, an old 48cm flat screen CRT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafad Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 And the CRT won't accept an RCA video input, it sort of accepts a component input but only shows it in black and white and only detects the input signal about every forth time I turn it on. Now this complicates matters! So... I have now borrowed a TV from Retravision, which is where I ordered the new LCD from. Thank God for borrower units! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeyboi Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Seems like you're having a bit of a run of bad luck there Cafad. I feel for you. On my trip to Hobart last week Qantas baggage mishandling managed to smash my BenQ DLP projector so the lamp stays on for only 1 minute, the image can't be focused and there is a noticeable shadow on the left side of the image. Considering it was packed with lots of padding and in a hard shell case, they must have drop kicked it across the tarmac a few times to end up this way. Not impressed. Cheers, Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Equaliser Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 No flight company will ever handle your baggage with care no matter what. Can't count the times and massive $$ loss on special alcohol brought back here from overseas only to have it smashed all over inside the baggage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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