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04Roadking · 03-19-2005, 07:18 AM

Hello everyone, this is my first post but I have been reading alot of interesting info from this forum. Here goes my experience with bars on my Hitachi 51swx20b rear projection crt tv. Had this tv hooked up to TWC's dvr hd stb, don't remember whitch model number of the stb but with the tv connected with component hook ups, to the tv's input one, the only picture you could get that wasn't HD had bars on the screen. Could not change from black to grey you only had black.
Being new to HD tv's didnt know this would be detrimental to my tv. After about 18 months I started noticing when an HD program came on I could still see the line on the screen where the bars were. I guess I was lucky that I sprung for the extended warranty that I almost never buy ! That waranty paid 930.00 $ to replace all three of the CRT's in my tv. I now have my tv back after being at the shop for 6 weeks. I am now subscribing with Voom and am glad that the stb has minimal channels with the bars. Any how, just wanted to warn any other novices out there to limit your black bar time or you may be sorry. I am also interested in these professional calibrations of the inputs of my tv and also was interested in the tuning dvd's I've read about on your forum,can these be purchased at a local AV outlet or online only, any info would be appreciated, I know my tv was banged around a good bit by these so called delivery guys that came back with my tv, thats why I am interested in this info.
Thanks for any help.

03-19-2005, 07:18 AM	#17
04Roadking Hd, my bike and tv! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Irmo, South Carolina Posts: 7	Hello everyone, this is my first post but I have been reading alot of interesting info from this forum. Here goes my experience with bars on my Hitachi 51swx20b rear projection crt tv. Had this tv hooked up to TWC's dvr hd stb, don't remember whitch model number of the stb but with the tv connected with component hook ups, to the tv's input one, the only picture you could get that wasn't HD had bars on the screen. Could not change from black to grey you only had black. Being new to HD tv's didnt know this would be detrimental to my tv. After about 18 months I started noticing when an HD program came on I could still see the line on the screen where the bars were. I guess I was lucky that I sprung for the extended warranty that I almost never buy ! That waranty paid 930.00 $ to replace all three of the CRT's in my tv. I now have my tv back after being at the shop for 6 weeks. I am now subscribing with Voom and am glad that the stb has minimal channels with the bars. Any how, just wanted to warn any other novices out there to limit your black bar time or you may be sorry. I am also interested in these professional calibrations of the inputs of my tv and also was interested in the tuning dvd's I've read about on your forum,can these be purchased at a local AV outlet or online only, any info would be appreciated, I know my tv was banged around a good bit by these so called delivery guys that came back with my tv, thats why I am interested in this info. Thanks for any help. Last edited by 04Roadking; 03-19-2005 at 07:27 AM.