Week of October 19, 2003 Q: I have been looking at HDTV sets at my local big box electronics store. I was just about sold on a particular model when the salesman recommended a four year service plan for $300.00. He claimed that the HDTV sets are very high maintenance and require a technician to […]
Week of September 28, 2003 Q: I’m pretty new to this HDTV world and need serious help. I just got a Mitsubishi rear projection HDTV and want to get the best picture possible. What is the best way to tweak the picture on a television set? Is the Avia setup DVD any […]
Q: I am hearing that a DirecTV HDTV signal is far superior to a HDTV signal from my cable company. Is this true? My cable company is now offering HDTV through its digital service but I understand that this is sometimes a very soft signal. Garbage in and garbage out really has never […]
Week 34, 2003 Q: I recently bought a Hughes Platinum HDTV satellite receiver and everything works fine. I also installed a Terk TV55 antenna to be able to receive local over-the-air HDTV. That’s when my problems started. I know my local stations sometimes have HDTV programming, but when I try to watch […]
Week 31, 2003 Q: I would like to purchase a big screen TV between 36 and 46 inches. HDTV projection TV seemed like the way to go. Then a friend of mine purchased a Hitachi 43-inch HDTV projection TV. While DVDs look amazing, his analog cable looks terrible. I guess […]
Published November 9, 2002 Q: I am thinking about purchasing a home theater system and have checked Home Theater magazine for their recommendations. It seems that there is a dispute over whether the new plasma tube big screens are preferable over the front-projection systems like Runco. It seems that both systems are in the same […]
Published November 2, 2002 Q: I want to get a digital camera, but I want one like my friend’s old Canon F-1 where you look through the lens and adjust everything yourself. Do they make them like that? -Mitch Bell A: What you are referring to is a single lens reflex (SLR) camera. […]
Published October 5, 2002 Q: I just got a new high definition big screen TV. Now that it is hooked up at home, it doesn’t look good at all. It looked great in the store. I use digital cable. Won’t that give me a picture that is digital quality? A: […]
