Telly

Tonight Victor von bytepilot played with the innards of our dead telly and then passed electricity through it.

AND LO! There was life, though as yet whether there was enough life for us to watch programmes on it, we do not yet know. Tomorrow, colonel_maxim, ellefurtle and myself will transfer all 90kgs of the brute to its place of power and plug in the aerial. If it continues to work, we shall then apply superglue and gaffa tape to its wounds...

It is just possible that the 36" widescreen telly dream will happen, albeit a little battered.

Muh hah haaaa...

Telly

Tonight Victor von bytepilot played with the innards of our dead telly and then passed electricity through it.

AND LO! There was life, though as yet whether there was enough life for us to watch programmes on it, we do not yet know. Tomorrow, colonel_maxim, ellefurtle and myself will transfer all 90kgs of the brute to its place of power and plug in the aerial. If it continues to work, we shall then apply superglue and gaffa tape to its wounds...

It is just possible that the 36" widescreen telly dream will happen, albeit a little battered.

Muh hah haaaa...

Telly update

It's all wired up, plugged in and working. The case is rather battered where it got dropped, but everything seems to work (I haven't worked out how to do everything yet) and even the speaker on the damaged side is OK. At the weekend I shall try to lever the pieces close enough together to tackle them with superglue and gaffa tape; beyond that it's done.

We christened it by watching the Sunglasses of Justice on terrestrial (signal enhanced by viewing it through the VCR as reception in these parts is lousy) and then I tinkered with the digibox and we managed reasonable reception on digital freeview for once to watch CSI: New York.

Hurrah and mighty relief!

Telly update

It's all wired up, plugged in and working. The case is rather battered where it got dropped, but everything seems to work (I haven't worked out how to do everything yet) and even the speaker on the damaged side is OK. At the weekend I shall try to lever the pieces close enough together to tackle them with superglue and gaffa tape; beyond that it's done.

We christened it by watching the Sunglasses of Justice on terrestrial (signal enhanced by viewing it through the VCR as reception in these parts is lousy) and then I tinkered with the digibox and we managed reasonable reception on digital freeview for once to watch CSI: New York.

Hurrah and mighty relief!