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DLP color wheel finally replaced

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I think I forgot to mention that we finally had our DLP TV repaired last week. Yeah!

The service man had come for a visit the week before but discovered that his paperwork had our old RCA DLP TV listed so we had to get the company that we’d purchased the TV from to update their info with the service company so that the repair could be covered under warranty.

The service man listened to the TV when it was running and stated that it was the color wheel making all that noise – as I had thought. So off he went to wait for the paperwork to be updated and in the meantime he ordered the part that we needed.

A week later he and this grumpy older TV repair man showed up with the new color wheel.

I say the older repair guy was grumpy because he complained about everything. Our TV is in too dusty a spot apparently and he complained that there wasn’t enough light for him to work in and so on. Grrr … just repair the TV and go!

I was almost afraid to ask any questions. I did though … you see we have a really bad cable connection here. The TV company is working to update their system but they haven’t really gotten around to this area yet.

Our Internet is high speed cable as well and sometimes that goes out too! The repair men suggested we look into using a CAT6 cable as it cuts down on noise interference or something to that effect. Actually now that I think over our conversation I don’t know whether he meant we should use a Cat6 in our home or that the cable company should be using those types of cables.

Anyway to make a long story short our TV is now fixed. When I turned it on after they’d pretty much taken the whole TV apart to take out the tiny, yet noisy, color wheel the TV was just about silent.

The TV was noisy before that we had to keep raising the volume higher and higher. Now we can watch most TV shows with the volume level 5 to 10 levels lower than we had been before the repair.





DLP TV headaches

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I’ve been complaining about our DLP TV making a loud humming noise for a long while now. Well, we finally called the company that we bought the TV from and checked how much longer our warranty would last (April 2009) and booked a service call.

Luckily it’s all covered on our warranty.

We did all that last week and the service company showed up about an hour ago to have a look at our TV. As we expected it’s the color wheel that’s making that constant loud humming noise whenever the TV is turned on.

Unfortunately when the guy showed up he looked at his paperwork and said “Wait, this isn’t an RCA?”. Yeah, our original TWO lemon DLP TV’s were RCA’s. One didn’t turn on at all, and the second one only worked for 11 days before it stopped working. We ended up having the second TV repaired at the stores insistence (on warranty of course) and they actually had to replace half the working parts to make it work. When it was finally returned after about a month it only worked for a day or two.

That’s when we insisted on getting a new TV and that’s how we ended up with the Samsung that we currently have in our home.

Now Chris is on the phone with the store telling them that the paperwork the service company has is for the wrong TV. They spent half an hour looking for the paperwork showing that our TV was changed over to an different brand.

It’s such a hassle every time we have to deal with the store, Bad Boy, and the service company. The store didn’t keep our paperwork in order. In fact we ended up with a store credit for over $700 when we changed from our lemon RCA DLP’s over to the Samsung DLP. In 2006 we purchased a new DLP light and charged it to our credit. At that time new lights for DLP TV’s were almost $300. So do the math, our credit should be $400 and something bucks right? Well they’re telling us our store credit is $167???

Seriously. Whoever is in charge of transferring all their bills of sale and other account data to their computer system really messed things up. We go through a major hassle every time we have to call them.

We need to get a new washer and dryer because the ones that came with our house when we bought it are over 30 years old! Talk about energy suckers! I was counting on using our in store credit (which should be gaining interest over the years, don’t you think?) to pay for a good portion of the cost of the dryer or washer, but if they insist that our credit is only $167 bucks well that isn’t going to happen.

Ok enough of my rant.

Fed up with our DLP TV

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Well I think it’s time for us to buy a new TV. We purchased our DLP (Digital Light Processor) television back in 2004 when DLPs were fairly new to the market. In fact, the first TV we got was a lemon. It wouldn’t even turn on and the second one that we got to replace that (same brand) worked for a total of 11 days before it ended up in the repair shop with half it’s parts needing to be replaced!

Unfortunately the store we bought our TV from, at a very high price mind you! It was close to $5000, wouldn’t let us cancel the sale after our disastrous experience with two sets so we replaced the second DLP with another brand (Samsung).

The third DLP tv set was working fairly well up until last August or so when it started making loud humming noises. It’s progressively gotten louder and louder as the months have gone by. Our set is still covered by our protection plan so we’re going to have it repaired, however, I’ve got to say that I’m completely fed up with DLP TV’s and I just want to get a new, less expensive set.

As I’ve mentioned before we’ve slowly been renovating our home. We started on the very first day that we got the house in June of 2001 and we’re still working on it. Well, actually we took a long break and there’s still half finished projects! I’m sick of looking at our half finished living room dining room, so along with getting our TV fixed and or replacing it I think we’d better get to work and finish our outstanding renovation project!

Hopefully the weather will start to get a little nicer over the next month. I don’t like renovating when it’s cold out and you can’t open windows to air out the house. Once the weather’s nice enough to open the door or a few windows for a short while maybe we’ll get to work, get the project done and then I can also get a few new pieces of furniture for the room.

I’ve been dying to redecorate and arrange the furniture in the way that I think it will look best once the rooms are finished. Hey, maybe we’ll get a membership at directbuy. You can get furniture, electronics, home decor and I believe even items like tiles and flooring for manufacture direct prices.

Getting our reno project finished, buying a new TV and maybe some new home furnishings while saving money sounds ideal to me. I guess I’d better start saving my pennies so I can get what I want, huh?

Are companies advertising everywhere these days?

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Have you noticed that ads that you’ve perhaps been seeing on the internet over the last year or more are suddenly in magazines and even on TV these days?

Maybe it’s just because I’m in Canada and some of these ads are finally making their way to main stream media here, but over the last month I’ve noticed more and more companies that I’ve seen doing big internet advertising campaigns advertising in magazines and on TV. You know, companies like Lifelock and ones for colon cleanse and several other products.

I thought more and more companies were turning to the internet to advertise but now I’m wondering if they’re changing their minds and going back to main stream advertising. What do you think? Are they putting their money into all kinds of ads or going back to more traditional ways of getting their message out?

Watching movies while I wait for new episodes of favorite TV shows

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We’ve had the movie channels as part of our cable package for years, but I must say that we don’t really use it often. We watch more of the regular top cable shows and documentaries or special shows on the specialty channels than we do movies.

However, having said that, with the writers strike going on for three months and new episodes of our favorite shows delayed until sometime in April we’ve been watching more movies on the movie channels this year.

I can’t remember which movie were were watching last week, but half way through the movie we started seeing subtitling in Spanish. It was really strange! I guess someone messed up at the station and put a DVD on with subtitles or something.

Have you been missing new episodes of your favorite shows too? What have you been watching instead – or have you found something else to do during what used to be your TV time?

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