You’ve seen the commercials with the clothing storage bags you vacuum the air out of to get more stuff in your closet? Digital TV is like that. The signal is compressed and harder to deal with. The computer processor in the tuner gets hot unfolding all this stuff, so don’t block your lower and upper vents.
When you shut your TV off, did you know a third of it is still oscillating at ten thousand times a second? Waiting night and day for your command to wake up the other sections? This causes three problems. 1. It wears out certain (cheap) components prematurely. Many flat screens just quit working. The filter capacitors swollen from overheating and fatigue. 2. The TV power supply noise while off blocks AM and FM radio reception. 3. More of a concern outside, the TV in standby mode runs the electric meter up. When you’re done watching at night, turn it off and unplug it to help it last longer, and enjoy the late night talk shows on the radio.
The RCA tube sets were built without installing the left audio channel parts – a cost saving measure. I noticed concerts with missing left stage instruments, or shows like Family Guy where the closed captioning showed dialog in a room to the left, but nothing was heard in the headphones. Thank you very much. The KTV’s have stereo, but the HP plug is very weakly attached. Don’t bump the headphone plug or use adaptors that act like a crowbar on the delicate jack inside.
The flat screen TV’s use a tiny fluorescent lamp to light the screen. These have limited lifetimes. It costs about $75 to replace the bulb. The meter’s running…
Some KTV tuner boards can come loose in the socket if your TV is transported upside down and the TV won’t turn on. For RCA / KTV tube sets, don’t clean your screen while wearing ear buds! You’ll get a 17,000 volt static spark in your ears. Maybe you can have your celly do it while you watch.
