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HDTV you send out your component adapter to

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RCA F38310

Built-in HDTV and DirecTV receiver/decoder

1440 x 1080i Pixel Resolution & Up to 1,555,200 Million Pixels

Scan Modes: 480p/1080i

Format Control 4:3 Centered, 4:3 Expanded 16:9 Expanded

5 Sets of Audio/Video Inputs

SYNCROSCAN™ HD Component Inputs

2 x 181 Channel Tuner

PERFORMAX™ Picture Tube

Picture-In-Picture

PIP Swap and Move

Channel Labeling Parental Control

3D Y/C Digital Frame Comb Filter

Hi-Performance Scan Velocity Modulation

Dark-Tint, High-Contrast Picture Tube

Auto Color Control

AKB Gray Scale Tracking Dynamic

BlackStretch Circuitry

Wide Band Video Amplifier

Front-fired Speaker System

dbx Broadcast Stereo

SRS / Focus Audio Technology

Dolby Digital

Key Digital component adapter from Inspiron 8600C to HDTV pictured above. Yours?
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1080i rez = 1920x1080 = 16:9
post #3 of 27
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Smoke what the specs and brand of your HDTV that you connect to with a component adapter from your NoteBook?
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I have not an HDTV nor a component adapter. Post a link to your adapter.
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RCA tech here. Avoid...

Lucky if it lasts 3 years. Many fail within 6 months. Ask any TV tech.

Biggest problem was tuners, but now it is flybacks.

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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar.../bz/bz16p.html
http://www.ur****ed.com/ (this site is cool, but you will need to fill in the **** with)
http://tean.formosa.org/campaign/hightech/rca/
post #6 of 27
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Rob my HDTV was bought on May 2, 2001 it had a build date of April 30, 2001 1 day on the showroom floor then it was mine.
post #7 of 27
I'm running a sony KP57WS510. I use DVI though, not component.
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Originally Posted by chazzy
Rob my HDTV was bought on May 2, 2001 it had a build date of April 30, 2001 1 day on the showroom floor then it was mine.
And I thank you, and other buyers like you, for continuing to buy RCA/Proscan/GE, as it gives me the extra cash to buy new Dell laptops, (plus DLP projectors, etc). Easily over 70% of all repairs done by independent repair centers are done on RCA/GE/Proscan models. Without them, no one could stay in business. I had a moral responsibility to warn when I see RCA, and now that is out of the way, so BUY, and then BUY some more!
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Rob I only turn the elecricity on to watch a movie then after a 5 minute cooling, I turn off not just the HDTV but whole current going to the HDTV. I paid $3,000 for it going on 4 years and it only has about 1,000 hours of use in 4 years, I have no cable or satellite TV. I use a Inlininc converted IN3506 for component adapter and 4 DVD mega chagers and 1 Region free DVD player to a one only input in back of the HDTV set.
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HumanSmoke here is your link to what i bought, it's worth every penny but then I bought when it was on sale.

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/kd-vtca2.htm
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Um.. You turn the electricity off to your TV? Isn't that overkill?? I have 4 HDTV's, ranging all technologies, Panasonic Plasma, 7th Gen, just bought, love it, 42"HD, Samsung 50" DLP bought in summer, Panasonic 36" CRT bought about 1.5 years ago, and a Sony LCD bought about 1.5 years ago as well.. They look decent, if I had it to do over I wouldn't have bought the LCD, just gotten another plasma.. But, I never thought to turn the electricity off everytime, I mean, you shut it off, etc.. Why would you do that every time???

I've plugged my laptop directly in to my 36" CRT Panasonic, as well as the plasma with good results.. my 9200 actually has a spot to check to make the output 1080i...

eric
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I forgot to add important information

Audioeric Not this time you see this HDTV has been discontinued over a year ago. The production of this very heavy 216 pounds for a table model HDTV, I believe was the reason RCA and Lowe Acconda(lou va of Germany) stopped making them. I belong to a certain forum that discusses possible workarounds of the Problem Plagued HDTV. Audioeric when this HDTV first has a problem it may be the set is finished, since they stopped making tubes and all other necessary cap and diodes close to 2 years ago.


IMHO the HDTV if not treated the way I do is going to be doomed, I haver never had a problem with the set. The set has 2 fans running while the HDTV is plugged in, when the HDTV is on a 3rd fan kicks in and will run until the power is completly shut off from the TV. I have the TV power on a 'wired' remote control to turn the set on and immediatly hear 3 fans going, or to have all the fans shut down instanly after using the wired remote.

I don't use the HDTV for cable or satellite watching, just for DVD, VHS, and a special computer program that I culd not get any other way. Every other night I turn this gem on to watch something then after 5 minutes of cooling I shut it completely down until 48 hours have elapsed.

The HDTV is one of the most beatiful translaters of Digital information I have ever seen, besides it's too heavy and sits on a locked to the cabinet below as seen in the picture. The 2 shelves hold 2 of my Sony Mega Changers, since the glass doors are open when I view the standalone HDTV for maximum cooling it will last much longer than the foolish people that use entertainment centers. The makers forseen this and installed 3 fans, I in not using one of these life shortening entertainment *cookers* will get the $3000 back in the total of entertainment the up to 1,355,200 pixel and intergrated line doubled DTC-100 HDTV has to offer.

I know 'overkill' but necessary for this disabled man with too much time on his hands to enjoy. I hope this helps you understand my thinking of the total power cutoff to a longer lifetime for this one of kind and most likely last of it's kind F38310 which in actuallity is 39 inches measured diaginolly for a height of 19.5 inches and a width of 34.255 inches wide *in* screen view, from 5.5 feet away on my 'day' chair.

P.S. When watching movies I turn the lights out and no more black bars, just one H*ll of a beautiful line doubled wide screen.
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Um.. Yeah, I'd say it's definitely overkill.. Why not just spend better money for a better TV? And, I think I win for heaviest TV My 36" CRT from Panasonic weighs in at around 270lbs The plasma is a walk in the park to move compared to that

Anyway, I still think you're crazy, that's way too much work to just watch TV or movies or whatever...

eric
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typo

Audioeric I push a switch on my wired remote, turn on my IninlineInc converted from computer to component switcher IN3506(1 thru 6), put on my designed Dolby Surround in sound headphones, turn on my external device and watch High Definition TV all the while I am sitting in my legs *up* Lazyboy lounger. Eric with all above attached to remotes, I need not move except to grab my Ice cold beverage~gulp.

When I have finished the *job* above, I reverse the devices and if it's not too late do something else or go slide from w/c to bed for a good nights sleep.

P.S. Eric you were mentioning total weight, I didn't include the weight of the large 2.5 feet high by 3.15 feet wide, by 2.3 feet deep~ heavy duty lockable to the HDTV that sits on top stand sans no wheels on the bottom.
post #15 of 27
all kind of mumbo jumbo nonesense about HDTV...there is resolution capability of the tv and then their is the ATSC tuner to decode HDTV signal.

solid state electronics aren't like they were 50 years ago. don't know why you shut power completely from the tv...unless you are worried about brown outs or power surges, there is absolutely no reason to have the thing cut off...unless of course you are trying to minimize electricity consumption since tv's at idle draw lots of it

there is absolutely no benefit of watching dvd and vhs on a HDTV enabled television, as the resolution of both formats are far below HDTV native resolution; moreover, unless your television has built in processor, which yours doesn't, dvd and vhs playback will look worse on your system than on a regular tv or EDTV. since the only HDTV signals are via satellite or cable, it makes absolutely no sense to have a HDTV system unless you are going to watch them in HDTV.

all in one systems are convenient, but you suffer from one thing being asked to do too many things. when one fails, it could wipe out your whole system
post #16 of 27
We've had a couple of those RCA's at work in our area. One failed, but the other has been going for about 3 years now. We keep it on 24/7, but the power is conditioned with a house UPS. We use it as a monitor for the in-house cable TV system. As a comparison, the early Sony HDTVs around the building have been much worse with failures, and don't look as good. Some people that had them went back to regular TVs because they didn't like the picture. The later Sonys are better.

Will the i9200 output 1080i with an ATI HD adapter? I don't see an option for that in the panel settings, and I've wondered if that only works with an HD adapter. Also, if it requires the adapter, is the one that works with the HD15 (VGA) output that the radeon 8500 used?

I also worked at a Thomson division a few years ago, and the employee price for that RCA was around $1400.
post #17 of 27
It's all about Plazma and LCD for me. Everything else is second rate. And yeah, I know, plazma dulls with time, but it still looks awesome for at least 3 years. After that go buy a new one.
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There's a room at work with four 42" LCD panels. LCDs were chosen because of the burn-in problem with plasma, especially when used with Kaleido-K2. In a little over a year, all 4 have developed severe image retention and strange soft jagged dark vertical patterns. These displays are premium professional models, which made this degradation even more surprising. It reminds me of the problem Dell had on the WUXGA Samsung panels on the i8600 a while back.

For critical evaluation, a 32" CRT monitor from Sony is about the best one can get.
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Originally Posted by Each Hit
There's a room at work with four 42" LCD panels. LCDs were chosen because of the burn-in problem with plasma, especially when used with Kaleido-K2. In a little over a year, all 4 have developed severe image retention and strange soft jagged dark vertical patterns. These displays are premium professional models, which made this degradation even more surprising. It reminds me of the problem Dell had on the WUXGA Samsung panels on the i8600 a while back.

For critical evaluation, a 32" CRT monitor from Sony is about the best one can get.
Samsung...nuff said...if you are gonna buy electronics...don't buy korean made.
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Important information for future of data/video streaming

Each Hit I in using a Cathode Ray Tube AKA CRT to bypass the burnin, was by watching everything in its OAR using the expanded or stretched format. I was against learning too much about the HDTVs faults, for example Red Push, Dot Crawl etc. I wanted to watch the HDTV not autopsy each and every fault, in this way I got used to fat faces while watching 1.33:1 Pan and Scams for most concerts were filmed in 4:3 AKA 1.33:1 as were video tapes. Only a few had letterbox which is a 2.35:1 non anamorphic wide screen like "The Guns of Navarone" Star Wars etc.

On topic using your VGA out to component adapter which turns the computer data video into the Toshiba 3 way color split AKA Y/Pr/Pb Colorstream© your HDTV line doubler is the key to High definition besides the screens ability to hold millions of pixels. Outputing in my case a Laptops VGA to my Key Digital component adapter splits the color stream to 3 different patterns and decoded by the HDTV into a lifelike color. Line doubled set top box or in my case the RCA has what is now known as HD built/in vs HDTV Ready(ready for you to buy a set top line doubler box).

Ordinary VGA out to a TV looses resolution, doing it with a HDTV 'buitin' or set top box is boosting the resolution to the capacity of the data. Instead of watching my wide screen laptop I am watching my line doubled incredibly clear view of the website that still uses fine print only your HDTV has a configuration of 16 X 9 not the Laptop configuration of 16 X 10 in which the fine print is now line doubled and can be read from 5.5 feet away. Your laptop doen't have the combinations your HDTV does which are:
4:3 with (RCA) gray or your brands black bars on the left and right sides of your HDTV
16 x 9 Expanded (stretched) sideways
16 X 9 Exspanded Stretched both Sideways and Vertically
I keep the HDTV in the middle or stretched sideways at all times since buying it in May of 2001.

In using what I call foolscreen 4:3 DVD or Laptop computers that have that aspect ratio, in the first category you would have your computer data stream in the center with gray or black bars of to the sides, and this is in the burn in area Chanell labeling if your watching commercial TV is a stationery target and if used daily it will burn a circle into any of the different HDTV or Plain TV for that matter. It will be something you see when watching wide screen DVD or Enhanced for Wide Screen. This the feared by videophiles worst fear no matter what scheme you use except Liquid Crystal Display (LCD).

We are talking CRT,DLP(Digital Light Processing), LYoS(Liquid Crystal on Silcon) and the still very expensive PLASMA, if you watch a stationery object that burns in your investment whether it be $4,000 or $40,000 will exibit a charterisic seen by the prospective buyer and the deteriation can't be reversed unless a new screen is bought.

Projectors are coming down in price from $65,000 and this would be your only viable way to see a no burnin image whether it be images from commercial TV or data streams from Laptop computers. The mail reason i don't have cable to satellite TV is this chanell lableling burning your investment to shambles, the second easiest way to destroy your TV or HDTV is to put the high heat producer into a closed in Entertainment Center for the only to profit is the builder of the Entertainment Center and Your Favorite brand of TV/HDTV maker, you are the end looser. the best way to view HDTV commercial or computer programming is watch your HDTV in a stand alone cooler on the high heat producer, it will add years to your investment. Don't take my words ask a professional Calibrator for your verifcation or Proof, once the realization is realized you will now discard your entertainment center or put a low heat DVD player in its place, and when shopping you will avoid bying foolscreen DVD or VHS.
You want to watch the movie as the director intended or computer website intended not fooled in buying something unless stretched will be in the middle only portion of your set, with those nasty black bars on either side of the no view screen.

During the hot summertime it's a cool idea to have most or all your computing at a distance, play your DVD in your DVD drive but watch the movie 5.5 feet away from you in a digital view. This is a firm belief that will be possible when HD-DVD Blu-ray AKA Blue/Violet very narrow beam laser which will allow much more resolution added to your line doubled to a complete digital view on your HDTV.

I am sorry for the long read, but for you to fully understand all that is good or what destroys is needed to be read and be finallized by the proof your ISF calibrationist can and will provide for your proof. BTW ISF stands for Image Science Foundation. Thank you for allowing me to teach you what you need to know, now and in the future. The Professional ISF calbrationist will concur on my words being the truth, its not all of it but the most important has been delivered.

Off Topic: My coloquial english can be read more easily by the nearly expert translation of The Anaconda, I hope he does translate, so you can take in what is 'not' familiar to you.
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