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Jeff AMN:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 19, 2007, 01:18:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: RayB on June 19, 2007, 12:28:24 pm ---Or how about those of us who were stuck playing our Atari games on the "spare" BLACK & WHITE tv, because the parents didn't want to "damage" the precious new color tv?

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Hell yeah, on a 9" black and white TV with a broken antenna covered in tinfoil and pliers to change the channel.  In 1983.

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 :laugh2:

I had the exact thing going. Did the tin foil actually help, or were we just that desperate?

ChadTower:

It definitely helped.  I could barely get anything without it... with it, I sorta could get enough to watch GI Joe and Transformers if I got home from school fast enough.

shardian:
I still have a set of bunny ears covered in tin foil on my 19" tv. Pay for TV? NEVER!!!!  >:D;D :laugh2:

ChadTower:

But the picture is always better while you have your hand on the antenna.  If you let go, the picture goes mostly away.

Howard_Casto:
You guys are way off base...  Jeff was correct in bashing every single solitary one of those, they all had issues and it had nothing to do with how broke the people were when they built it.  

Since someone suggested it'd be more constructive to make sugggestions on how to improve I can list the things that ALL of these setups need to change right now.  

1.  Priorities!  You've bought a 400-600 dollar console and 200-300 dollar speakers and you hook it up to a 19 inch tv?  Buy a new frikkin tv!  If you can't afford a new tv then, maybe, just maybe, you should have bought a tv INSTEAD of the speakers.  Anyone who thinks digital surround is going to enhance the experience of straining their eyes at a postage stamp of a composite ntsc signal is crazy.

2.  Speakers don't work if they aren't placed properly.  The tv needs to be centered between the l and r speakers.  The surround speakers need to be behind the player.  The center speaker goes on top or behind the tv.  End of story, period.  If you don't have space or the means to do this then you just wasted a butt-load of money because your speakers are never going to work right.

3.  Clean up a little why don't cha?  Mind you I'm a slob, but I can pick up my area long enough to take a snap.  Some people have no shame.

4.  The tv should be sitting between 2 and 3 feet off the ground.  Period, end of story.  If you are a little person, or a giant I apologize, but otherwise this the is proper hieght unless you enjoy neck strain.  

5.  Priorities!  (Again).  If your room is so tiny that you can't even leave space for a chair, maybe you should save your money for a storage building or something before cramming your room with three truckloads of electronics.  

6.  Pimping consoles is stupid.  In 5 to 10 years it'll be a door stop.  Spending money to put leds and do-hickeys on your xbox is throwing away money you could be spending on games.  If you've ever spent more than maybe 15-20 bucks on modding, you have a problem.  Also anything that permenantly alters the console reduces the value of it 20 years from now when you can only find them on ebay.  I like flashy lights and purdy pictures too, but I put them on things that'll last.  

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