Tomorrow night is the big show, folks.

spinach · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:30 am

law & order vilifies its defense attorneys a little too often for my tastes toph

spinach · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:26 pm

oh that's just not true

i got a seven year old box still going strong

spinach · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:50 pm

if it gets more than 99 channels it is a digital tuner

my 2002-ish 13" konka [who?] lacks an analog tuner

spinach · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:21 pm

i know of plenty television sets which have lasted awhile and your claim is baseless -- back it up with something and i'll give you something that isn't anecdotal

and do keep in mind it isn't enough to show me a bunch of consumer complaints about dead sets -- happens all the time, always has -- no, find me a comparison between sales and returned defective sets

so that's 1, 2 and 4

my set shows no sign of going out any time soon, but i have had a tube in an older set go from 100% to dead within a single dbz monologue so who knows what tomorrow brings!

spinach · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:48 pm

you know, i've got an lcd monitor i've been lugging around the last four years, no dead pixels [i always notice these things]

and there are crts manufactured after '95, you know. that 13" set i mentioned before is a tube

not to mention all of what you just posted has nothing backing it up -- where'd you get your numbers?

spinach · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:24 pm

dude you're not backing anything up with anything, you just brought in this baseless bullshit that doesn't come near to matching my own personal experience

i've read up on lcd tech, and plasma, and cathode ray tubes and vacuum tubes and front projection and rear projection and oled and other imaging tech whenever i've stumbled across something to read but i have not ever found anything that matches your claims

my monitor has been in regular use as my daily monitor since i got it and it has not so much as a single dead pixel -- in fact, on all the lcd monitors i've handled [my own and those belonging to others], i've seen a single dead pixel, on a laptop monitor which also has clear physical damage on the same row

i know defects happen, it's a fact of mass production, but those defects are exceptions rather than rules by the time any product goes into mass production [of course, that rule can have exceptions, too], or else the resulting fallout could kill any manufacturing outfit. SO! i'm writing off everything you say to the contrary until you can back it up for me with something concrete.

this has been one hell of a derailment and i'm pretty much done with it.