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  • Re: They don't make TVs l

    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to KURT WEISKE on Friday, February 13, 2026 10:10:22
    I could easily afford a new flat screen but I have other 'issues'.
    My place is often left unheated over the winter and below freezing conditions can destroy flat screens.. They all use LCD, and that
    stands for LIQUID Crystal Display.. Liquids can freeze and distort.

    Yeah they can. My first flat screen TV maybe lasted 6 or 7 years. :(

    Interesting - we have a 20 year old Panasonic flat screen at an
    unheated cabin in the Lake Tahoe area - it's at a high of 22F this
    weekend. It's been through several winters up there.

    To my knowledge, my failure wasn't even due to cold. It got to where the
    color was not right. I moved it downstairs where it got used sparringly
    for probably a couple or three more years before the picture quit working
    all together.

    I forget what brand it was. It was a "3D" tv but as there were no
    broadcasts that were 3D to watch, that feature never got used. I didn't
    buy it for that reason.

    Mike


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  • From Rob Mccart@1:2320/105 to KURT WEISKE on Saturday, February 14, 2026 08:07:10
    I could easily afford a new flat screen but I have other 'issues'.
    > > My place is often left unheated over the winter and below freezing
    > > conditions can destroy flat screens.. They all use LCD, and that
    > > stands for LIQUID Crystal Display.. Liquids can freeze and distort.

    Interesting - we have a 20 year old Panasonic flat screen at an
    > unheated cabin in the Lake Tahoe area - it's at a high of 22F this
    > weekend. It's been through several winters up there.

    Supposedly it gets dangerous somewhere around -20c or -25c (-4/-13f)
    so it will depend on how cold it gets there inside the cabin, and
    it's not 100% guaranteed damage will occur, they just don't usually
    cover any damage if it does.

    Plus the damage can be just a scattering of dead pixels that
    hardly show.

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  • From Rob Mccart@1:2320/105 to KURT WEISKE on Sunday, February 15, 2026 08:03:12
    It won't take HDMI cables, but those can be adapted to RCA Jacks.

    All of the extra resolution would leak out of the connectors, I suppose.

    Given that the TV set is a 22 year old CRT set it couldn't handle
    much resolution at the best of times. I'm happy and amazed that it
    can do things like zoom in or stretch the resolution as well as it
    can, although the PVR may be more responsible for that, but it allows
    me to view quite high resolution signals a little better, even if the horizontal edges are chopped off.

    As I understand it, CRT screens don't have a native resolution,
    so you can't put a maximum number on it. They basically take the
    signal and just display it.. and yes, no doubt with some loss of
    clarity, and that's limited by the TV's built in memory and such.

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