The Television Mall

JD asked:


I am planning on moving to an apartment using my PC as my entertainment center. Using my TV I would like to hook up my Wii and an HDTV tuner. I am assuming that I would need a specific video card to do this. What video card (or features in one) would I need? How can I get the HDTV signal (what type of tuner should I get?) to play on my monitor (my monitor is capable of displaying a HD signal).

Felipe

Lil’ Mo asked:


My plasma TV has a feature you have to manually set to perform a whitewash, or sometimes called a “scrolling” cleanse of the plasma tv, to prevent burn in. I was wondering if there is a windows screensaver that will do the same thing for me since I use my plasma as a computer monitor.

Thanks!
I learned that burn in can be an issue — I have the task bar hidden and have enabled pixel shifting on my television. I rarely have issues, and when I do, they go away quickly. I more would like to have the “scrolling” whitewash screensaver as a safety net. Newer plasmas rarely get burn anymore anyway, even on computers.

Jovani

budbud asked:


I have a defective board in my lcd tv, cycling my screen and channel functions. what is this part called? Key controller? or just the controller board?

Tristan

Fernando R asked:


The hdtv has 3 hdmi inputs and the 5.1 reciever has 1 hdmi input. What can I do? Is there a fiber optic “converter” for recievers that don’t have it?

Valerie

Fastpicker89 asked:


I’m thinking about getting a TV but it’s in Connecticut. It needs to get to Florida and they won’t ship. I want to find out how much it would cost to schedule a delivery and then have it shipped. I would just use an online service but everyone I’ve tried requires that you open an account with them and i don’t want to do that. Just asking for advice: has anyone had experience with this? It’s a pretty big TV, 47″ flat panel with accessories. HELP?!

Duane

wfk asked:


I have a Westinghouse 27″ lcd tv and the words and sound is like .5 seconds behind the video. On video games such as guitar hero, its impossible to play.. On cable and movies the video is faster than the sound. I don’t know how to fix it. I don’t have any other speakers hooked up to it, so it is something with the tv. Anyone have any ideas?

Kareem

BradLeeJay asked:


I bought a new computer with a HDTV tuner.
I would someone to recommend a specific antenna model that gives you the best HDTV reception for your money. It would be nice if it was also compact.

Courtney

Jon Ortega asked:


i have a sharp aquos lcd tv and i just got a dish hd reciever. we have a surround sound box in the entertainment system. how do i hook up the surround sound to the tv so i can get sound whenever i switch inputs for example, it works with the satalite but when i switch the imput to imput 4, for the wii, i still get the satalite sound?

Jagger