drozek said:
i got a sh*tty apex 20' mines cuts sh*t of too and is angled wrong
I have a 60" Hitachi Ultravision - and it is crystal clear
... someone else mentioned that the common element here was that everyone who has problems starts by saying "I have this <insert brand> POS TV ...".
The comment on the overscan is correct. SOME models (especially older ones) had (I think) 3 pots that stuck out to adjust the picture - horizontal scroll, left/right, top/bottom. Remember that a TV works by having a beam of light activate phosor dots on the inside of the picture tube. This scanning is done using powerful magnets (well, magnets and electromagnets). The pots were used to manually adjust the scan ranges of the light emitter (the "cathode" part of CRT).
As manufacturers got wiser, the pots went from being externally adjusted, to internally adjusted trim pots (instead of a bar to twist, you needed to slip a screw driver into a slot), and access went from holes in the back of the TV, to needing to take apart the TV to access them. So a job anyone cold do, now went to something a trained monkey needed to do for you (and charge you for it).
Once they made sure you couldn't adjust the parts yourself, the risk of hurting yourself went up as well. So now, unless you really know what you are doing, what was once a safe thing to do yourself can get you fried for touching a screwdriver to a cap while you were reaching for the potentiometer.
This is a win/win for everyone execpt you. Your TV needs adjusting, you need to take it out for repair - repairman wins. You do it yourself, and break something in the process, send it out for repair, repairman tells you its broken and will cost big $$ to fix so you might as well buy a new one and charges you for the fact - repairman wins, manufacturer wins. You really screw up, and fry yourself - manufacturer wins, HMO wins.
Gotta love capitalism.
