Thread: New Television Selection

Originally Posted by Saitch

The thing that favoured us was the fact that there was an 'LG', company rep in the store at the time and after he had explained a lot of the, what I found interesting, technical stuff ( did you know that, by placing your phone camera on to a black part of a TV screen, you can see different flashes, or lack thereof, depending on the screen?), he was asked, during the haggling, if he had any clout. He disappeared for a bit, reappeared, had a quiet word to the salesman and 'Bingo'!

I thought the phone camera trick showed you if the TV remote was working as it can "see" infrared.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

I thought the phone camera trick showed you if the TV remote was working as it can "see" infrared.

Yep, but this was different.

Phone ‘trick’ is dependent on camera refresh rates.

And bugger plasma - had a HD Yamaha unit for 20 odd years. Great picture and excellent at warming the room in winter

An RCA to HDMI box is $30

Originally Posted by Homestar

Didn’t even know they made fridges.

They probably don't.
Just get some shoddy Chinese fridge makers to knock them up and then stick their badge on it.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Phone ‘trick’ is dependent on camera refresh rates.

And bugger plasma - had a HD Yamaha unit for 20 odd years. Great picture and excellent at warming the room in winter

And lightening your wallet when the power bill came.

Originally Posted by gromit

Had to get onto their technical support at one point, turned out we hadn't got the latest software ! Updated the software, re-programmed the stations I didn't want and it was OK for a while.

TV's used to be a simple device that you plugged in and they just worked for 20+ years, now I'm sure it's sending back info on everything we watch.....

Could be worse - a couple of years ago I had to take my new bike light (as in bicycle light) to a dealer so the software could be reflashed.

Originally Posted by Saitch

We currently have two Sony Bravias, which have been trouble free, for 20+ years, but one has lost' Free to Air' capacity.

If you want to keep using the same TVs why don't you get a set-top box? When we moved back from the UK we brought our plasma TV back with us - it doesn't have local channels so we plugged in a local set-top box. Worked perfectly and we upgraded to a new set-top box when free to air changed.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

If you want to keep using the same TVs why don't you get a set-top box? When we moved back from the UK we brought our plasma TV back with us - it doesn't have local channels so we plugged in a local set-top box. Worked perfectly and we upgraded to a new set-top box when free to air changed.

Funny you mention that, Arapiles. I just scored a new TelstraTV gadget, which arrived yesterday!