Q: I am at my wits end trying to find a site that will provide me with easy to understand instructions on how to do a rescan! Do you have any idea how I can find a source for this? Your site (after searching for an hour and fifteen minutes is the closest to anything I have found. I would greatly appreciate any info you could get to me.
Iver Beck
A: I can understand your frustration. The problem is that the steps required to perform a “rescan” are different for different tuners, so I can’t give you the specifics for your individual tuner. And you won’t find “rescan” on the tuner’s menu. That’s because when we say “rescan”, what we really should be saying is “scan again”. It may seem like a simple thing to some people, but you’re not alone in your confusion.
All you have to do is go to the menu for your TV or converter box, find the channel section, and if it gives you a choice between “scan” or “update”, choose “scan”. That will clear all the assigned channels and do a completely new search. That’s all a “rescan” is. It’s exactly the same thing you did when you first setup the TV or converter box.
Note that it is a good idea to rescan every month or so, as stations in your area may be making changes. Be sure to rescan after the digital broadcast transition deadline on June 12.
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It’s been years now since the Blue-state, ultra-liberal, Hollywood power brokers in TMZ.com photog-infested neighborhoods such as Brentwood, North Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades started dumping their Mercedes S65 AMG sedans and Range Rovers for Toyota Prius and Lexus Hybrids. Solar companies are installing system after system on top of $4,000,000-plus homes as if there is no recession or housing slump. Lines at the local Farmers Market on Sunday are three deep with every hip Angelino wearing their 7 For Mankind jeans and quirky yet cool Oliver Peoples glasses while anxiously waiting to load their reusable tote bags with organic and local veggies. Now West Los Angeles is getting their home theater and electronics systems more up to the green standard. This weekend at the Paul Revere Middle School (the same middle school that was the parking lot two weeks ago for the PGA Tour stop at Riviera Country Club), there was a lineup of well heeled, tech savvy and Botox injected Soccer Moms and Techno Dads recycling their not-so-green “old technology.” Old (think: non-iPhone) cell phones were being reconditioned and given to returning U.S. servicemen and women. CTR televisions were being stripped of toxic parts and recycled. Audio components were being slated for resale or the recycle bin – not just headed to the trash bin.
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Sitting the right distance from your Plasma TV is an important part of optimizing the viewing experience. Sitting too far away from a small- or medium-sized screen definitely diminishes the overall impact. At the same time, sitting too close to a large screen is also less than ideal. A good indication that you’re sitting too close to a screen is if you find that you’re distracted by being aware of the screen’s structure , those tiny pixels, and for CRT based TVs, horizontal scan lines. If you’re not sure how far away you should sit for optimum viewing, consult our suggested viewing distance calculator.
There are differing opinions on the best way to determine optimum TV viewing distance. Generally, you calculate viewing distance by multiplying one of the screen’s dimensions (height, width, or diagonal) by some fixed number. The rule-of-thumb generalizations for standard analog TVs with 4:3 aspect ratio no longer hold true for newer HDTV sets and HDTV-ready TVs. These high-resolution models include upconversion circuitry and wider 16:9 aspect ratio screens. High-resolution displays reduce the visibility of scan lines, so you can sit closer without noticing them.
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Toshiba recently has made a major move in the LCD market that very likely has gotten the attention of the boys at Sony, Samsung and Vizio. Their latest line of high-definition LCD displays, specifically the 42-inch Regza Cinema Series HD display reviewed here are thinner, brighter and better than any other set in terms of refresh rate. What’s even more impressive is that you buy one today for a reasonable $1,699 retail.
While the product number may be confusing, the Regza Cinema Series HD LCD has a 42-inch, 16:9 display, with a native resolution of 1080p and a 120Hz refresh rate. The display itself measures roughly 40 inches wide by 25-and-a-half inches tall and nearly four inches deep, The manual controls are located along the right side of the display itself and feature hard buttons for power, menu, channel and volume, as well as a single HDMI and composite audio/video inputs, which are pretty much standard
