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Obituary For the Sony Trinitron
An anonymous reader sends us to Gizmodo where, to honor the passing from production of the Sony Trinitron, they've done a timeline on the development of television. "After 280 millions tubes sold, Trinitron will be officially dead this month. Few Sony inventions have had the same gravitational pull as their Trinitron display technology... Trinitron became synonym of the best quality TV sets and computer monitors in the planet... Sony became the king of TV, with more than 100 million sets sold by 1994, to later fall under the weight of plasma and LCD technologies."
We have an old Trinitron, which we acquired as a result of an elderly relative passing away. We don't have the instruction book. It's model number is KV-2092-UB. The Sony website knows nothing about such a model. What I want to know is; is it new enough for s-video to work over its SCART connection? Asking here because I obviously don't trust Sony enough to give them my personal details which is a requirement for asking them. Anyone know?
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Both these statements are ridiculous. If she's doing something else and wants some noise, she can turn on the radio or a CD (cassette, LP, according to the timeline). No need to have the TV running that will actually distract you from your occupation.
The "pet" argument is just plain insane.
Besides, I was off with my calculation... I said from 16h00 to 24h00, but that's a mere 8h... For 16h, you need to turn it on at 8h00 in the morning and turn it off at 24h00. Am I the only one that find that absolutely insane? The 8h, I can come into... Kids come home, TV, some soaps, a movie, and your 8h are through, even though that it would be better that the TV is turned off during dinner.
For 16h, the housewife going shopping needs to leave it turned on, for the pet? Is anyone really doing that? Back when I was a kid, we were yelled at if we left the TV running because a friend from the neighborhood went out to play and we forgot to turn it off. We were constantly reminded that electricity costs *real* money.
I happen to have two Compaq Armada 41XX series laptop that are still working, and I know of at least 3 others that are still in service. They are quite old (as computers go). The first models came with Win95, later ones with Win98. They have no internal fans...the internal Titanium case is part of the CPU heat sink. The main problem that I have had with these laptops is with the screen hinges (Compaq calls them clutches), or rather the cheap grease used to lubricate them. After a few years the grease dries out, and the hinges are damaged, causing the screen/lid to be harder to open and close. This eventually causes the plastic of the lid near the hinges to break. On the ones that I have, I managed to replace the dried grease with Slick-50 One Grease. This is usually used on cars, but works great on the hinges and hasn't showed any signs of drying out yet. I know that these laptops are slow and ancient. I use them for reading ebooks, and a few other things. I have modems for them, but I don't go online with them anymore because they run windows (too little memory to run Linux with any decent desktop). The point is that these laptops are pretty well built compaired to some newer laptops. If I were to replace them today, I would probably buy IBM/Leverno, as they have the best reputation for being built to last.
Who foresaw that the maker of these CRT screens would dare put rootkits on so many computers? Currently, the word "rootkit" is not considered a word by my spellchecker, but I am sure that future spellcheckers will include "rootkit," and its popularity and inclusion will be another Sony innovation : P
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