Blown away...new television

[Dustbuster]

samsungs rock enjoy the new trophy!


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[maroonandwhite]

We got zapped by lighting through the sat dish took out 3 TV that were hooked up via HDMI we lost a 60" two 32" and thought our 42" was gone too... We watched 10 year old DVD's on an old 20" that was stuffed in the closet... That dam thing was tiny!

Same thing happened to my inlaws. Weird for sure. That hdmi must be a more sensitive connection. We added ground rods and a dedicated electrical circuit for the tv and it still did it. They are just using standard definition now with no problems. Other than standard definition.

[teecro]

Same thing happened to my inlaws. Weird for sure. That hdmi must be a more sensitive connection. We added ground rods and a dedicated electrical circuit for the tv and it still did it. They are just using standard definition now with no problems. Other than standard definition.

 

Yes weird for sure.... All of the living room equipment was plugged into a quality surge protector; it and the DVD player was the only thing that lived.... Our cordless phone and Wifi router were also toast as the phone line was plugged into the main sat box. The sat LNB on the dish was shorted out as was the voltage injector and 3 of the 4 sat boxes so all in all I ended up with damaged equipment in 4 different locations in the house. I even want to blame lighting for burning out the battery charger for my 48 volt golf cart.... Took out a protection program through DirecTV so that if this happens again the entire repair/replace bill is on them!

 

We replaced the 60" Vizio with a 65" Samsung and were really quite pleased with the improved quality of the picture...

[NextExit]

Its hard to imagine going back to only 640x480  pixels now :)  Just going from the old tube to a modern resolution was a real eye opener for me, ours is not even HD.  

 

Still, the old stuff can look kind of bad on the HD units.  As can the compressed channels (jpg like artifacts in the image) if they still do that (???).  

 

But the new stuff looks SO good... congrats!   I keep thinking that 3d units will take off soon but so far not really happening.  

DirecTV & Dish still compress their channels (they have to, it's the only way to pack 10-20 channels onto a transponder.) But the technology has got better (From MPEG-2 to MPEG4) so the picture is better than what it used to be.  I remember when I had a c-band dish and digital was coming out.  Had a Digicipher receiver and the picture was amazing.  Did a side by side comparison with Dish Network and DN had a horrible picture.... unlesss you were watching a 13" TV :ugh:  Even with the analog reciever, it was still a better picture than digital because it was a first generation signal compared to a digitally compressed, re-transmitted signal to a pizza dish. :2cents: