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Technical Help & Discussion => Software, Hardware & Website Recommendations => Topic started by: Clive on March 08, 2005, 15:59
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Hours of delight for Scrumpy Jack. :laugh:
http://members.chello.nl/~h.dijkstra19/index.html
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Yes Clive.......I know that site well......I've spent many happy hours there ..... :D
Aren't CRT's wonderfull?..........shaped containers with almost nothing inside.......Just like my HEAD :)
LONG LIVE ..GLASSWARE !!!!!!!...thats VALVES AND CRT'S 8)
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I have to say thats even more boring than the cloud website, at least clouds are pretty :!:
:twisted: :laugh:
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Thats an Interesting site Clive..will add that one :wink:
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Some of us are very disappointed with you Michelle. :damnit: :blahh:
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I'm enthralled. Truly fascinating.
:x
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Well clive I went and had another look just for you :wink: and its still the same. :roll:
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:pmsl: Michelle! I think that site is better viewed wearing an anorak. :wink: :blahh:
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ah, is that what it is! :laugh:
Well I don't have one of those, so I'll have to wait to borrow Scrumpy-Jack's but it seems he must be using it.
:lol:
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Well heres a site full of GLORIOUS GLOBES and HOT HEATERS just for CLIVE ....... :D
http://www.r-type.org/static/museum.htm
Be carefull CLIVE to much looking at this stuff will make you go BLIND :shock:
Hold on..just going to take my ANORAK off and hand it to MICHELLE 8)
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:omg: There can't be many people who find sites like that fascinating, but I confess to being one of them! :laugh: When I was a kid, my next door neighbour was a retired radio/TV engineer and he used to spend all his time in the shed tinkering around with those big Bush valve sets. I used to enjoy watching him diagnose and repair faults and he taught me to build my own valve radios. Sadly, I even reember many of those valve numbers!! I had a feeling that that DEQ valve he had in the drawer was old because it looked pretty antiquated even back then!
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It's amazing that companies like Bush are still going. These days, they are seen as the very lower end of the market, but I had a Bush TV from Radio Rentals, back in about 1984, that lasted 16 years with no maintenance whatsoever, and had a fantastic picture right to the end. The thing that killed it was simply the on / off switch, which possibly could have been replaced, if I had looked in the right places, but it gave me the excuse to move on to widescreen.
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The thing that killed it was simply the on / off switch, which possibly could have been replaced, if I had looked in the right places, but it gave me the excuse to move on to widescreen.
Well I don't possess an anorak either thank goodness :twisted: but all due respect to the saddoes out there for keeping us informed of these sites :whistle: :wink:
Simon, I've had a Toshiba wide screen tv for about 18 months now and I STILL dislike it, everyone looks squat and fat even though Ive changed the dimensions soo many times... I wish I'd never bought one now :roll:
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Is this when watching from your Sky box only or from the analogue channels as well as the VCR and the DVD :?
If its only when watching Sky then you need to change the settings in the Sky box menu :)
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Simon, I've had a Toshiba wide screen tv for about 18 months now and I STILL dislike it, everyone looks squat and fat even though Ive changed the dimensions soo many times... I wish I'd never bought one now :roll:
I remember having this conversation 18 months ago when you bought it, Bev. As Sandra said, you should only need to adjust the screen setting in your Sky Digibox to 16:9 (Widescreen), and your TV should automatically detect the correct ratio. You are connecting your digibox to the TV with a scart lead, yes? Not being funny, but in case you don't know, this is a scart lead:-
(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apax34.dsl.pipex.com%2Fscart.JPG&hash=c68fb4c72e78dc2406b73a7ac44f27f24b38ef46)
You will not get proper widescreen pictures from a normal TV ariel coax lead, nor will you get true widescreen from a terrestrial analogue signal. i.e. direct from the TV ariel.
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[You are connecting your digibox to the TV with a scart lead, yes? Not being funny, but in case you don't know, this is a scart lead:-
(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apax34.dsl.pipex.com%2Fscart.JPG&hash=c68fb4c72e78dc2406b73a7ac44f27f24b38ef46)
You will not get proper widescreen pictures from a normal TV ariel coax lead, nor will you get true widescreen from a terrestrial analogue signal. i.e. direct from the TV ariel.
:lol: Thank you for reiterating this Si and for jogging my memory as to what a scart lead looks like :whistle: but I assure you all the settings are correct, I just think widescreen TV's in general are a personal dislike of mine :brickwall: as I said, I wish I'd never bought one :roll:
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Well, it's a shame you don't get the enjoyment from it that you should do. People should not looked 'squashed', if you have the settings correct. If you lived round the corner, I'd pop round and sort it for you! :crazy: :scoot:
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Shes probably either not wearing her correct glasses or shes got the tv set on its side :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Shes probably either not wearing her correct glasses or shes got the tv set on its side :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Ahhh shrup you! I dont wear glasses so there :bartmoon:
I just dont like wide screen TVs! :wahh:
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Shes probably either not wearing her correct glasses or shes got the tv set on its side :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Ahhh shrup you! I dont wear glasses so there :bartmoon:
I just dont like wide screen TVs! :wahh:
I have to back you up there, Bev. I have a Panasonic all singing all dancing 100hz telly and the picture quality doesn't compare, even with adjusting the settings to that of my Sony 29" square screen. It's ok if what your watching is in digital viewing but some programmes are put out in analogue and that's where the oval balls come into play while watching the snooker. :D :D :D
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and that's where the oval balls come into play while watching the snooker.
Your supposed to keep your eyes on top of the table :whistle: :wink:
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Some nice TELLY'S on here folks . :D
http://www.thevalvepage.com/tv/Tele.htm
Super NARROW SCREEN..with only 1 CART fitted ... :)
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Sadly, I remember even the earliest of those tellys! And one of my neighbours had the screen magnifier too! :lol:
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We had one of those coloured filters which you hung across the screen, to make a black and white TV appear to be colour, for those who couldn't afford or receive colour back in the early 70s. It was blue at the top, orangy in the middle, and green along the bottom. The only programmes it ever worked with, was horse racing! :grin: