Olympic rings burned into your plasma TV? Inconsiderate Prime/Sky

**Maki** · 12th August 2012, 17:25

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

Hey when did the rings lose their colour??? Saw the olympics yesterday & the rings were white

How longs this been going on for???

Sky/Prime only knows. Maybe they are doing this for the benefit of those who still have a black and white CRT TV. Got to keep those black and white folks happy.

**Madness** · 12th August 2012, 22:15

Originally Posted by Maki

Sky/Prime only knows. Maybe they are doing this for the benefit of those who still have a black and white CRT TV. Got to keep nzspokes happy.

Fixed it for ya.

**pzkpfw** · 14th August 2012, 09:26

Originally Posted by The Lone Rider

P.S. - anyone with a giant CRT tv that they dont want, I'll take it off your hands.

You: (a) Serious? (b) Anywhere near Wellington?

**The Lone Rider** · 14th August 2012, 17:14

Yeah I''ll take a CRT depending on size.

But I'm in the south island.

**pzkpfw** · 14th August 2012, 17:21

Originally Posted by The Lone Rider

Yeah I''ll take a CRT depending on size.

But I'm in the south island.

Ah.

Got a 32" (it was "big" at the time) flat/widescreen CRT. Paid $2,500 for it, pretty much top of the line at the time (LCD's were still $5,000 or so then).

It does progressive scan and all that. A couple of digital view modes (100Hz scan and Pixel plus). Fantastic sound.

Basically worth nothing, but so good I can't bear the thought of dumping it (even after having gotten over the "but I paid $2,500!!!" stage).

I can only just carry it around the house by myself, so definitely wouldn't be worth sending anywhere.

I'd maybe drop-off to a (local) KB member...

**The Lone Rider** · 14th August 2012, 17:41

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

Ah.

Got a 32" (it was "big" at the time) flat/widescreen CRT. Paid $2,500 for it, pretty much top of the line at the time (LCD's were still $5,000 or so then).

It does progressive scan and all that. A couple of digital view modes (100Hz scan and Pixel plus). Fantastic sound.

Basically worth nothing, but so good I can't bear the thought of dumping it (even after having gotten over the "but I paid $2,500!!!" stage).

I can only just carry it around the house by myself, so definitely wouldn't be worth sending anywhere.

I'd maybe drop-off to a (local) KB member...

Fastpost might have a rate that is reasonable. Let me look into it. Could use my two LCDs as computer screens then lol.

**Spuds1234** · 14th August 2012, 18:07

Originally Posted by The Lone Rider

Yeah I''ll take a CRT depending on size.

But I'm in the south island.

Pickup in christchurch, has remote, not sure what size it is as its been in the garage for ages. Will measure it up when I get home and check it works if you want.

**The Lone Rider** · 14th August 2012, 18:24

Originally Posted by Spuds1234

Pickup in christchurch, has remote, not sure what size it is as its been in the garage for ages. Will measure it up when I get home and check it works if you want.

Cheers man; maybe I'll have a little collection going :P

**onearmedbandit** · 14th August 2012, 18:43

Originally Posted by The Lone Rider

Cheers man; maybe I'll have a little collection going :P

Got a 29" here that we're about to throw out.

**Maki** · 14th August 2012, 19:46

What's all this??? I reluctantly sold my 28 inch "Toshiba Bomba" CRT TV for $55 a year ago and people are talking about throwing them out?!? What is the world coming to?

**onearmedbandit** · 14th August 2012, 20:02

Originally Posted by Maki

What's all this??? I reluctantly sold my 28 inch "Toshiba Bomba" CRT TV for $55 a year ago and people are talking about throwing them out?!? What is the world coming to?

I know! Give it a year though and they'll be throwing out their plasma's too.

**pzkpfw** · 14th August 2012, 20:12

(I do think this is an example of why we're "using up" this Planet. It's so much cheaper to buy new than fix old, for so many things, we just keep making and making stuff. Did I really need a new 55" Plasma (around two years ago) to replace that 32" CRT? Not really. But I wanted to. So some factory had to make that new Plasma, and the old CRT will get dumped/semi-recycled. Can that really keep going on and on?)

**The Lone Rider** · 14th August 2012, 22:11

If I'm gonna pilfer the local community of their old CRT; knowing the screen size & depth of the unit would be handy. Depth would greatly effect what I may use it for.

Biggest tv I have here is a 25" LCD I was given.

Then I got a 20" CRT in my bedroom and a 17" CRT in the workshop.

If there's a big demand to get rid of them, I'm happy to collect them up and offer them to locals who had their houses destroyed or similar. You would hope any sensible person would have a tv as low priority for purchasing, so a free CRT would probably be a grateful donation.