bboyneko
02-17-09, 11:56 AM
I have a Hitachi 57" Rear Projection CRT HDTV ( Hitachi Model 57F59) that I purchased March 2007 from sears.com
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/bboyneko/new%20tv/DSCN0073.jpg
I had NO IDEA you are supposed to clean these things. I had walked into a Best Buy Magnolia Home theater set up and saw their plasmas and was BLOWN AWAY by the image quality. I went home and looked at my Hitachi and was wondering why it didn't look nearly as nice.
So I did searches, came across this forum and lurked for a while reading up on threads. Well to make a long story short, I took the TV apart, cleaned the mirror, clean the lenses, did an alignment etc. And now the TV looks JUST as good as the plasmas at best buy.
The only difference being that my tv is 1080i and theirs is 1080p of course. But you really DO get a lot of mileage from these TV's and I just wanted to thank everyone in this forum for posting so many detailed and useful threads that can help someone like me get such a great value from their TV.
I feel like I bought a new TV and you really can't beat the value of 57" for less than 1k (when I bought it in 2007 it cost me just under 1k).
It's a shame they don't really make these great value RPTV's anymore :( now you'd have to spend $4,000 to get a TV of the same size with comparable color gamut.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/bboyneko/new%20tv/DSCN0073.jpg
I had NO IDEA you are supposed to clean these things. I had walked into a Best Buy Magnolia Home theater set up and saw their plasmas and was BLOWN AWAY by the image quality. I went home and looked at my Hitachi and was wondering why it didn't look nearly as nice.
So I did searches, came across this forum and lurked for a while reading up on threads. Well to make a long story short, I took the TV apart, cleaned the mirror, clean the lenses, did an alignment etc. And now the TV looks JUST as good as the plasmas at best buy.
The only difference being that my tv is 1080i and theirs is 1080p of course. But you really DO get a lot of mileage from these TV's and I just wanted to thank everyone in this forum for posting so many detailed and useful threads that can help someone like me get such a great value from their TV.
I feel like I bought a new TV and you really can't beat the value of 57" for less than 1k (when I bought it in 2007 it cost me just under 1k).
It's a shame they don't really make these great value RPTV's anymore :( now you'd have to spend $4,000 to get a TV of the same size with comparable color gamut.