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O.T. Macrium
Mark Twain wrote:
I just measured my TV and the screen 21 inches diagonally, 17 inches wide and 12 3/4 high. The TV itself is 24 1/4 inches wide, 15 3/4 inches high, I don't seem to be able to find any Sony's in this range. Everyone is making bigger and bigger TV's now. So what am I to do? Robert IMO, go to a place that sells TV's (big box store or electronics store) and compare pictures. Nothing beats comparing pictures in the store. When you find one or two that you like then see what kind of output jacks are on them and get a jack compatible DVD player. Your old DVD's will play just fine and you will like the backlit LCD TV better than your old CRT. It's a bit of a drive but there is a Microcenter in Tustin and a Fry's in Anaheim. Walmarts are in just about every town in USA and Canada. |
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I was just going to suggest the same thing *L*
Funny you should mention Anaheim, because that's where I grew up but it's a hour and a half drive from where I live now. I actually thought of Sears,. but I can check out Walmart as well and I'll let you know what I find. Given that I'm restricted in size because of my entertainment center I'm wondering about the 1080 resolution and the DVD matching it,... but I guess I'll find out all that when I'm looking to match them up. Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I know all of this is way off topic but I appreciate your guidance. I didn't close my Verizon account they switched all their customers to Frontier and I didn't have Internet access for 3 months because they did this. Oh I know the TV is fried,.. it won't turn on or the DVD player but other parts of my stereo do turn on. In passing, my refrigerator also took a hit and has to be replaced. This guy sure did a number on me. I've seen the HDMI which means I also have to have a DVD player with HDMI connections but wouldn't that render all my regular non HD DVD's useless? If so, then they need to replace all my DVD's as well. I do like Sony TV's at least they use to be the best but I'm having trouble finding anything. Here's one I found. https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...l_2q2z8nmtbj_e this was my DVD player: https://www.google.com/search?q=sony...WfX-GEUAA2GhM: I don't run my TV through speakers, I just use the speakers in the TV itself. So if I understand you I have to match a TV with HDMI connection with a player with HDMI connections, correct? Thanks, Robert Your player was pretty nice. It had component, composite video and svideo (4 pin DIN). The component is YPrPb and it's the "high quality" output of your player. Every bit as good as HDMI. The composite and S-video are put on the back of your DVD player, for "easy" connection to cheap TV sets, or to a VCR for recording. I would expect to find HDMI on a modern player, with at least composite for those cheap TV sets people might use. The composite input on my TVs are basically unusable (black restoration problem with signal level), so for me composite is worse than using RF antenna NTSC channel 3. The Wegs apparently came in different sizes. The cabinet doesn't look too deep. I thought at one time, Sony made a picture tube, with a "hockey stick neck" to make shortened cabinets, but i don't know if they made those very large. The one I remember was a miniature TV the size of an old fashioned calculator. Sony XA21M61 Wega 21″ CRT Television Sony XJ29M50 Wega 29″ CRT Television One of those Wegas has RF, S-Video, composite, the other is missing S-Video. That means, as standards go, the wires don't allow sending a very high quality signal. Your player with the component connectors on it, that would have been a better method if the TV supported it. Now, your TV set is probably 4:3, whereas modern display devices are 16:9 (suited to DVDs). That means todays screens are wider. You should really be given a set with a larger diagonal, because a 21" 16:9 would look "puny" when you're looking at it. Maybe we could look for a 32" TN or so. As it happens (lucky guess), that's about all that's available anyway. The smaller stuff is actually too small to match your Wega. Newegg calls these LED TVs now. LCD TV seems to be a rather less popular title. I picked this one, just to get some dimensions. NEC E326 32" LED Backlit Display with Integrated ATSC/NTSC Tuner $370 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0JC-0017-000C2 The bezel is pretty thin. The chassis is: 16.70" x 28.60" x 3.00" What I'd want, is for the display height to be the same as your existing Wega, so it "feels the same". That's one reason for guessing that I'd start at 32" for a match. Contrast Ratio (Typical) 1400:1 Frame Rate 60Hz Viewing Angle 176°(H)/176°(V) === IPS or PV, not a TN, this is good :-) Panel S-IPS === It's one of the many flavors of IPS... The color doesn't shift when you move your head. Connectivity Input Type D-sub (VGA 15-pin) HDMI-In x 3, Component (Y, Cb/Pb, Cr/Pr) (3 RCA connectors) USB Port Yes Audio Ports SPDIF TOSLink out Stereo Mini-Jack In http://www.necdisplay.com/p/large-screen-displays/e326 User manual: http://www.necdisplay.com/documents/...rManual_EN.pdf "NTSC Standard, ATSC Standard (8-VSB, Clear-QAM)" So it doesn't support cable TV ? That would be 64-QAM or 256-QAM and need a cable card or something. E326 HDMI ports (digital inputs) http://cdn.cnetcontent.com/7b/c4/7bc...e725ebec2b.jpg USB, 3 HDMI, RS232 (control port?) E326 analog inputs http://cdn.cnetcontent.com/56/51/565...c23c27943a.jpg SPDIF Out (TOSLink, red LED over dental fiber optic cable) YPbPr component video, L&R audio in Antenna connector VGA in, audio 1/8" in (from a PC, native res. unknown) Some TV VGA ports, like if the TV was 1920x1080, the VGA port does 1440x900 and doesn't run native. The manual doesn't say what this one does on VGA in. NEC just doesn't seem to be very good at listing specs that count. Anyway, that's an example of "looking one over". There's only one review on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/NEC-E326-Comm.../dp/B01N6RK911 And I didn't even see mention of a TV remote with it. There is one, but I can't find a picture. That's all part of a TV purchase experience (some remotes suck). The reviewer here mentions his TV came with no stand! And another site in Europe lists the TV as "no feet". Hilarious. Even though the promotional pictures show a stand of some sort. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...ial_grade.html I tried searching for "box contents" but I don't really think the retailers have access to the info, and of course *nobody* opens a box to look... https://www.insight.com/en_US/buy/pr...2-LED-display/ That's an example of a TV used for signage. It has a lot of nice properties, but "documentation" is not one of them. The manual is way too short. The USB port can be used for media playback. The last site showed me that tidbit. As for the notion of using a VESA plate to hold up a display, I have two monitors here, and the second monitor is using a VESA plate. I bought two L-shaped pieces of metal at Home Depot, and use those for a VESA plate, and clamp the two L-brackets to my AV rack. The rack hasn't fallen over yet - but the monitor in question is pretty tiny. When mounting monitors that way, you have to remember that children have been injured by falling TV sets, so if using the VESA method, you can't just pop a few screws into plastic insets into some gyprock and "call it done". That's not good enough. You have to be absolutely sure it's anchored in a stud. ******* Going to a local store, at least you could size up TV sets. I think a 32" would be close, and a 40" or so might be a bit too wide (take up too much shelf or table space). There are lots of tiny details to check. Paul |
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O.T. Macrium
I connected the WD external HD again
with the same results. I went into file explorer and it doesn't show it but the 8500 recognized the USB connection. http://i68.tinypic.com/2mnr8ua.jpg I don't know exactly what you mean by simple tests to see if the OS is happy with partition? Do you mean chkdsk? It's been a very long time since I ran a chkdsk. I go to the command prompt and type chkdsk right? Do you want me to do that on the 8500? I do remember about the backup drive online/offline but at present its not even showing it's in file explorer. Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I connected the WD external HD again with the same results. I went into file explorer and it doesn't show it but the 8500 recognized the USB connection. http://i68.tinypic.com/2mnr8ua.jpg I don't know exactly what you mean by simple tests to see if the OS is happy with partition? Do you mean chkdsk? It's been a very long time since I ran a chkdsk. I go to the command prompt and type chkdsk right? Do you want me to do that on the 8500? I do remember about the backup drive online/offline but at present its not even showing it's in file explorer. Robert You check Disk Management first... If it's Online, *then* you check File Explorer. It will not show in File Explorer, if it's Offline. Paul |
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O.T. Macrium
As I said the dimensions of the WEGA are
24 3/4 inches x 15 3/4 inches with a 21 inch diagonal screen. There's no way I could fit a 32 inch TV into my entertainment center. It just wouldn't fit. 'If' I could 1/3 would be hanging out one side with a wood post from the entertainment center cutting across the screen. So am I screwed? or maybe I have to buy a used one off eBay? All the sets you showed have so many features I don't need and I can barely follow the specifications and which are good? All I know is to look for HDMI connects on both the TV and the DVD player. They really sell TV's without stands?! That sure is weird. As I stated my TV is in an entertainment center and frankly, there isn't enough space to mount a TV on the wall either. In passing, I don't watch cable,.. haven't for 20 years,.. I prefer my DVD's, I get the news online and television hasn't had anything worthwhile in years. Thanks very much for explaining all of this and your great links. It sure is confusing though,.. I never knew there was so much into buying a TV Robert |
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Also, I'll call Frontier customer service
tomorrow and see how much a new modem will cost. Even though I have a working modem, I'd like to have another backup. If I had not had this one I wouldn't be online now. Robert |
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I followed your instructions:
http://i65.tinypic.com/vsi2b4.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/2jak8x0.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/11aia75.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/3344278.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/e7bceu.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/o6ber8.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/k0r28y.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/vgocck.jpg I had to go into my Admin account to change from offline to online but every time I go on my Admin Account then return to the User Account, the pages are re-sized smaller and I have to open them up again to normal size. Why does it do that? Thanks, Robert |
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Thanks, I did like my DVD player and
was sorry to see it fried along with my TV and everything else. I agree about having a larger diagonal but the outside dimensions remain are still pretty small compared to what they offer now. It seems they only make large and larger TV's without thinking that some people just don't have that kind of space. Robert |
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running my Mrimg backup on the
8500 and everything look normal. Robert |
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O.T. Macrium
Mark Twain wrote:
Also, I'll call Frontier customer service tomorrow and see how much a new modem will cost. Even though I have a working modem, I'd like to have another backup. If I had not had this one I wouldn't be online now. Robert If you're paying a rental charge for the burned-up one, see if it's still "on the books" with Frontier. They may offer to replace it, if you're paying rent on it already. I might have been paying $3 a month for my first modem (there was no BYOM option back in those days), and the last two were purchased modems (so nobody to talk to about it, just buy and install myself). I returned the rental one, like a good boy, and there was no charge on my final bill with them. Now, it's a lot easier to BYOM and buy one at the store and use it. Even my VOIP phone was like that, I could buy the device myself. But first, I had to figure out how to program it. If you purchased it from the ISP (no rental), you paid the same price, but it was already programmed. The ISP still likes to rent VDSL2 equipment, and I think that's just as much of a scam as ADSL was originally. The gear needs a truck roll (install in garage or basement, line needs proper termination or something), but it all seems to be a "bit too much ceremony" to me. ******* Another way to watch DVDs, is via the computer. You could connect a second monitor https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Ultrasha.../dp/B000UVDONY to the computer, and play DVDs on that from the computer. But it means the computer noise will be present while the video content plays. You could use whatever audio solution (new speakers) you get for the computer for that as well. The monitor in the example, is a 1600x1200 monitor. I picked one, to try to fit the "square hole" in your AV center. It is exactly the wrong solution for DVDs, as 16:9 content would need to be letterboxed one way or another, so that a circle looked like a circle on the screen. You wouldn't want extremely tall skinny people on the screen, nor would you want everyone to look like Roseanne. So while I picked a monitor with roughly the right shape, it still doesn't optimize the active area the movie would "like" to take up. If you do "zoom" mode for the DVD, that chops off the sides of the video, so only the person dead center in the screen is seen. And details off to the size, you'll miss those. There is plenty of content which was originally 4:3, and that stands a chance of viewing better. that particular monitor doesn't have an HDMI connector, only DVI, and if you did have a DVD player, you'd need to use an HDMI to DVI passive adapter cable to make the connection. The player may or may not like the resolution options the monitor offered. But with DVD player software, you might be able to play commercial titles via your desktop. The other solution would have been slightly more seamless, and more in line with "replacing like with like". Replacing a DVD player with a DVD player. Replacing a TV set with a (sorta) TV set (without legs :-) ). But I understand the space issue. I *could* fit a 32 inch monitor on my table, but there'd be practical issues with fitting it to my AV rack. And I might not have just the "correct wall surface" handy, to give proper viewing while hanging the monitor/device with a VESA plate. ******* Another kind of viewing device, is a projector. But that really isn't all that practical. In my opinion, projectors are a bit washed out looking, compared to the alternatives. You could use an entire wall in the room as a "screen", for example. That's just "not very nice" :-) And I don't think the current generation of VR glasses would suit for movie viewing. The resolution probably isn't that good. Paul |
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O.T. Macrium
Mark Twain wrote:
I followed your instructions: http://i65.tinypic.com/vsi2b4.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/2jak8x0.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/11aia75.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/3344278.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/e7bceu.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/o6ber8.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/k0r28y.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/vgocck.jpg I had to go into my Admin account to change from offline to online but every time I go on my Admin Account then return to the User Account, the pages are re-sized smaller and I have to open them up again to normal size. Why does it do that? Thanks, Robert The "free space" on that partition is rather small. Macrium could end up deleting an old backup to make room for a new backup. The CHKDSK says it put some things in the "found" folder. You could try looking at the top level for something like that. If the files are small, and there aren't many of them, I generally don't waste time looking at the files. But if something has gone missing, you may want to revisit that collection of fragments. ******* Your display control panel in Windows, not only does it have a resolution setting (like, matching the native monitor resolution), it also has a scale factor. On my PC here, my display is set at 125%, so things "look big enough". At 100% (the Windows 8 setting right now), my desktop looks too small. If your admin account isn't matching on those settings, it could make things look different while you're in the admin account. But your unelevated user account should behave normally when you come back (as far as I know). https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...g-dpi-scaling/ So that article focuses on the scale factor, while the following one is "nearby" as a sub-menu and it focuses on setting the PC to the native resolution of the monitor. (Make PC 1920x1080 if monitor is 1920x1080.) http://www.thewindowsclub.com/set-sc...ount-windows-7 Paul |
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No, the modems were bought outright from
Verizon, not rented since I don't use cable. Watching DVD's on the computer is not an option because of my disabilities. I can stay online for awhile but not to relax or watch movies. That's why I had the TV and VCR. Also there's already the 780 monitor and there just isn't room for another. I would prefer to go with replacing the DVD with a DVD and replacing a TV with a TV. There is a space I could put it on the wall to the left of the entertainment center but then everything would be sewed to the left and I have a piece of art already there that would fit nowhere else. In addition, I would have a big empty space in my entertainment center where the TV use to be. I'll go to the stores tomorrow and see what I can find. This guy sure screwed me. Robert |
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I saw the limited free space as well but I
thought that was a 'normal' function of the backups, to delete old ones as new ones were created? Exactly what am I looking for in the 'found folder? Here's my screen resolution: http://i64.tinypic.com/282p0ub.jpg I completed my mrimg backup for the 8500: http://i65.tinypic.com/2niog3c.jpg Thanks, Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I saw the limited free space as well but I thought that was a 'normal' function of the backups, to delete old ones as new ones were created? Exactly what am I looking for in the 'found folder? Here's my screen resolution: http://i64.tinypic.com/282p0ub.jpg I completed my mrimg backup for the 8500: http://i65.tinypic.com/2niog3c.jpg Thanks, Robert I just wanted to make sure you were aware that Macrium will be in "delete to make space mode". There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you're happy with the results (not losing a valuable older backup or something). ******* Beside the screen resolution, there is a separate tab for the display magnification. Maybe one of your accounts uses a different setting for that, than the other ? Paul |
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