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| Thread ID: 110725 | 2010-06-29 14:05:00 | Capacitor plague | zqwerty (97) | PC World Chat |
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| 1114566 | 2010-06-30 03:59:00 | well I wouldn't "expect" anything at all to die in 3 years due being out of date or bad caps - whether it's a monitor or a motherboard | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1114567 | 2010-06-30 04:04:00 | I would expect it, because I've seen it. I've repaired several monitors which were faulty, nothing more than bad capacitors, and only 2-3 years old. The same problem is prevalent in cheap LCD TVs as well |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1114568 | 2010-06-30 12:25:00 | yea sorry, I didn't mean that it doesn't happen - just that it shouldn't! :) | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1114569 | 2010-06-30 12:32:00 | Every consumer article should by default be made to withstand 50-100 years of service. Anything less is planned obsolescence and a crime against our environment. :D |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1114570 | 2010-07-01 00:04:00 | Every consumer article should by default be made to withstand 50-100 years of service. Anything less is planned obsolescence and a crime against our environment. :D I'm still using a TV from the early 1980s. I will have to ditch it when they stop the analog broadcast... |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1114571 | 2010-07-01 00:07:00 | I'm still using a TV from the early 1980s. I will have to ditch it when they stop the analog broadcast... You can buy a standalone DVB receivers, that's probably what I'm going to do |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1114572 | 2010-07-04 21:23:00 | You can buy a standalone DVB receivers, that's probably what I'm going to do With old TVs without any AV inputs there isn't any way to connect a receiver except via RF modulation. I don't think any of the DVB-T receivers for Freeview terrestrial support RF output. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If so, it means you'd have to buy a RF modulation adapter.:banana Make sure any RF modulator you buy supports S-video or component so you can sidestep the quality degradation from composite. The sound quality from RF modulation is weak but that won't matter if you have external speakers. There are some satellite receivers that support RF modulation. |
GoodHour (12218) | ||
| 1114573 | 2010-07-05 01:05:00 | I use an old VCR to connect my DVD player, new VCR and PC to the TV... Takes up more space but would probably cheaper second hand than a new standalone RF modulator. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1114574 | 2010-07-05 01:19:00 | IBM weren't too forthcoming with their capacitor problems either, but if you pushed them they would replace the faulty boards. | Greven (91) | ||
| 1114575 | 2010-07-05 02:02:00 | Every consumer article should by default be made to withstand 50-100 years of service. Anything less is planned obsolescence and a crime against our environment. :D Good idea. Parents are going to get some flack. (PS, Lucas years come at fifty to the milli-second, but most of their stuff would still be in the consumer court pronto. Unfortunately, ownership of an Emperor of Darkness product takes you out of the consumer class and slaps you in the lower end of the drongo squad.) ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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