Archive for the ‘TVs’ Category

efaiii asked: We are looking at buying our first HDTV for Christmas this year. What is the difference between plasma and LCD? 720 vs 1080? Also, what additional accessories are required (cables, etc). Do I need to have it installed professionally or can I do it myself? Thanks!

Posted Mon, Nov 3rd, 2008. Listed under: TVs. Tagged as: . 1 Comment.

abach530 asked: I have a 32” widescreen audiovox LCD HDTV. I also own a comcast digital cable box, which we used to view hi-def programs through component cables. We recently got a dvi cable and now sandard-def programs have black bars on the left and right of the screen. Th HD is [...]

Posted Sun, Nov 2nd, 2008. Listed under: TVs. 4 Comments.

paladin.macroberts asked: I like my movies wide screen. I just got a wide screen HDTV. While the TV is amazing and I got it for a steal, I am disappointed that I still have the black bars on the top of my screen.
A) Why does it streach wide screen movies and leave the black bars [...]

Posted Mon, Oct 27th, 2008. Listed under: TVs. 6 Comments.

UNDERSTAR asked: So I picked this HDTV from a friend and its one of those really heavy 47″ Sony Trinitron tvs and I have this discoloring on the upper left and right side of the tv and a discoloring on the bottom left. Its a greenish color and its distorting the color/video on the [...]

Posted Sun, Oct 26th, 2008. Listed under: TVs. Tagged as: . 1 Comment.

yp_joe_arlington_887 asked: I have an hdtv i just bought (vizio vw26l), the picture is less than I had hoped but I haven’t hooked it up with HDMI cables yet. I ordered some cables that come in later this week. Is the picture quality related to the cables? Will it improve with the [...]

Posted Wed, Oct 22nd, 2008. Listed under: TVs. 2 Comments.

Tyrone W asked: I have a hdmi cable hook from my hdtv cable box to my hdtv. and some of the words on hd channels are off to the side.

Posted Tue, Oct 21st, 2008. Listed under: TVs. Tagged as: . 1 Comment.

Stopher asked: My dad wants to by the top of the line hdtv. He doesn’t care about the price at all. I just want to help him pick the right one. He wants no other tv to beat his. I was looking at a Sony 60″ dlp. I really like Sony, and I believe it [...]

Posted Mon, Oct 20th, 2008. Listed under: TVs. 8 Comments.

nurseneekee asked: I have a HDTV but I can’t watch HD channels with Dishnetwork receiver because the dish network satellite to too low on the horizon. I have trees on the south end of my house that prevents me from getting HD channels frm Dishnetwork. I tried using a HDTV antenna on top [...]

Posted Sat, Oct 11th, 2008. Listed under: TVs. 3 Comments.

efaiii asked: We are looking at buying our first HDTV for Christmas this year. What is the difference between plasma and LCD? 720 vs 1080? Also, what additional accessories are required (cables, etc). Do I need to have it installed professionally or can I do it myself? Thanks!

Posted Sat, Oct 11th, 2008. Listed under: TVs. 1 Comment.

Robert asked: I see that services to tune HDTV’s are out there because HDTV’s ship with settings at max, however if it’s tuned correctly one can get the same picture yet lower settings and save the lifespan of equipment and lower power consumption.
So I see tuners/techs out there that do this, such as techs at [...]

Posted Sat, Oct 11th, 2008. Listed under: TVs. Tagged as: . 4 Comments.