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pauluk #185608 03/20/09 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by pauluk
This is something which has been bugging me for a long time. Back in the old days, if we wanted to adjust the contrast on the TV, we just reached for the knob marked "Contrast" and turned it up or down. Now it's press the menu button, scroll across to find the cryptic little symbol which corresponds to screen settings, then scroll down and find the contrast option, press select, and try to adjust it up or down with the on-screen menus covering the largest portion of the picture so that you can't actually see what you're adjusting! Is this supposed to be progress? frown



Paul,
And that is when the set is working properly.
Without a remote control these days, you have no chance of finding things like the pin-cushion.

I had a TV here the other week, that the Vertical deflection had absolutely gone out to pasture, the screen was flickering so fast that I had to solder a resistor in series with the pot that controlled the V-Hold, to see the menu. eek

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Trumpy #185617 03/20/09 03:25 PM
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Those on-screen TV menus are killing of a really good Gallagher joke.

"I wish they had a knob on the television set that would turn up the intelligence...they got one called 'Brightness' but that one don't work".


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ghost307 #185623 03/20/09 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by ghost307


"I wish they had a knob on the television set that would turn up the intelligence...they got one called 'Brightness' but that one don't work".


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