I wonder if those no name ones at sams will last though? Somebody posted a
list of good brands and ones to stay away from. Might have to see if I can
find that. Yea, I think he said it was for cooling or something. I guess
it projects thru this fluid and if it clouds the pic is not as good.
Anyway, he said those Phillips Magnavox tvs were junk when new.
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Kaleb C. Striplin
Cox Auto Trader
730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT, fluid in a TV?
> That is a projection TV, with 3 big CRTs that put out a lot of light and
> heat. They probably do have some sort of coolant (silicone?) to keep
> them from melting, and maybe it is like auto fluids that just use up
> their capabilities after a time of heating/cooling cycles. Not sure why
> that would affect the picture, but it sounds sorta reasonable. Perhaps
> you could try some of the German synthetic blinker fluid? Boards go bad
> too, temp cycling kills components.
>
> All the big retailers are fighting hard for your dollar, time to go work
> them over good. You might want to wait a coupla weeks to just before
> Christmas when they are reaching hard, then get a 30day price guarantee
> and keep an eye on post-Christmas prices.
>
> Sams Club had some nice TVs at decent prices on Saturday. Wifey was
> wanting a flat screen for the BR, they had some good prices on Vizios so
> I got a 32" LCD 720P. The display had no price on it, but there was a
> folded up paper there next to it, which I looked at to see if it was a
> price. Turns out it was an internal email listing about 40 products
> they were putting out with killer prices, on Friday ("THIS IS BIG!!" it
> said). Those TVs were on the list. While I was looking at it, some
> other guy came by and got one also. It looks very nice, kind of a
> mid-range quality and price it appears, and has some interesting
> features. Good for BR. It also found a bunch of the digital cable
> channels and HD channels too, without a cable box, but on weird numbers
> so I have to make up a menu for it. Or I might have to get another box
> now. They had some cheap DVD players too that upconvert and have HDMI
> connections, have not hooked that up yet.
>
> Merry Christmas to me!
>
> --R
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