Muggins arcade-monitor-bloke here was all "Aye it's a tube all right, if it goes fssss when I turn it on then the flyback's good and whatever's wrong with it I can fix or adjust out"
Haha wait lemme find the trim pot labelled "Made of shit"
It was a Samsung and it was 99 cents so I figured hey, it's a Samsung, it's here for a good time not a long time, and hell maybe Samsung was good in 2006
Nah turns out they were just as shit in 2006 as they are today
I'm just glad I've got enough of an eye for monitors to be able to tell what can be adjusted to be better and what's just, like... the problem is literally just that it's a bad TV made of junk and it should never have been built in the first place
@ifixcoinops Aye, I had the Samsung 720p 27" TV around the time of the Xbox 360 launch. Used DVI if memory serves, not HDMI, was the screen they'd always show off that system on.
Anyway, shield on speakers knackered and that weird color effect on the picture I literally thought could only affect CRTs suddenly appeared. Out of warranty, obviously. Absolute shite.
@ifixcoinops mind, we've got a house full of excellent Samsung phones, have done for years, and so "it's a Samsung" effect in full swing I bought all their appliances. They're all slowly imploding like that old telly from nearly 20 years ago.
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