Magnavox 537, 535, 533, 515, 513, 2160A, 2160, 2080 & Philips 3576, 3575 - Page 554

Originally Posted by wajo

The problem is random and a very low number/percentage but no guarantees on another unit.

Before you take it back, and since you are MOST interested in the analog channels, would you do a test for me?

If so, do another Auto Channel Preset > Cable (Analog/Digital) but PULL THE INCOMING COAX TOWARDS THE END OF THE ANALOG CHANNELS and let the scan complete fully.

Depending on how diff. it might be for you to pull the coax, you can start unscrewing before 125, at analog 115 or so (?) or use a push-on type of coax for this test, then you can wait longer? You can always add analog channels manually if the higher-numbered ones are important. You can also START the scan with the nut unscrewed but the inner core still fully engaged (pushed in), then just pull the coax out at 124 or sooner... just don't let it see any digitals.

Then run as normal and see if this might be the opposite of what we've been thinking... it's not "analog interference" but "digital interference"???

Originally Posted by Sleeve1961

I did this procedure to just tune the analog channels. It has not locked up since. I've run 4 test recordings with no lock up. Previously it was locking up on every test recording I did, so it looks like this is a workaround. I'll continue to run various recordings to make sure.

Originally Posted by jjeff

To me more annoying than the light is the constant loud beeping(every 10 seconds or so) when the power is out to my 350va APC. My bedroom LCD, DVDR, and DVD player is on a older 350va APC and gives a loud chirp when the power goes out and a series of loud beeps ~every 10 seconds after that! It's so bad that I generally turn if OFF during the outage. I'm not sure if one can disable the beeps or even set it up to not beep at all but since I rarely record with that DVDR I just turn it off and try and fall back to sleep Luckily my power is quite stable(maybe one outage/year) otherwise I'd probably not use this UPS in the bedroom or anywhere near it.

Originally Posted by L David Matheny

I don't have a UPS in my bedroom, but beeping every 10 seconds is a bit much. OTOH, persistent beeping reminds me that I need to go around and shut everything down in an orderly manner, assuming that the outage lasts more than ten minutes or so. The UPSs are there to cover short outages; for longer ones it's better for the batteries not to deep-discharge them unnecessarily.

Originally Posted by rdgcss

I have several APC ups units, all connected to various PCs via USB. The PCs have the APC software installed. The software has a setting to suppress the beeping when the power goes off. Don't know if the setting is internal to the ups, ie. if the USB connection is removed the unit will still not beep.

Originally Posted by Dartman

I have 2 1500 va units on the PC's in the house here, they'll run a pretty strong system with lots of goodies for half an hour and huge amounts of time if everything happens to be off and just in standby mode.
My A/V system has a 750va unit that will run all the dvd player/recorders and TV for about half an hour if the TV's on and much more time if maybe one unit is recording by itself and everything else is standing by.
Bigger is better and true sinewave output with boost and buck is best but most cheaper units use approximated sinewave output and don't always do the boost and buck part which means they will raise or lower incoming voltage as needed in case of brownouts or surges(within reason).
None of my currently in service units are true sinewave but most modern equipment will be OK with it, some will not so double check before you plunk down your money.
Watch the office stores and sales on the bigger and smaller units happen all the time. My last APC one was 100 and it's a medium quality unit with a nice LCD display that shows all the important info you'd ever need.
My older one was like 80 out the door with a 50 rebate when they were closing them out so my final price was like 30 bucks, less then new batteries for all my older ones that finally ate theirs.
Watch the black Friday sales as I bet at least one office store will have a good deal on one or more, that's where I found my last one later in the morning because everyone was buying up all the really cheap stuff first thing and nobody wanted to spend 100 on a UPS Also got a great price on a 2 gig USB drive that I will cycle into my media player system soon.

Originally Posted by timtofly

Only 2 gig USB drive?, this year I am looking for them to "give" away a 16gig thumb drive.

Originally Posted by JoeKustra

It's hard for me to say too. I think he probably meant 2Tb drive.

Originally Posted by rdgcss

Prices of hard drives have gone up 90% in the last few days, so good deals are going to be hard to come by in the near future.

Originally Posted by rdgcss

Prices of hard drives have gone up 90% in the last few days, so good deals are going to be hard to come by in the near future.

Originally Posted by JoeKustra

It's hard for me to say too. I think he probably meant 2Tb drive.

Originally Posted by Kelson

Yeah, I know. It was reported in another thread that the monsoon rains in Thailand have flooded the factories where the drive motors for HDD's are produced, so the factories are shut down. 2TB drives suitable for mass storage and video were selling for $80 with free S/H and I was getting ready to buy another pair. The day after that report was posted the prices jumped to $100 +$8 S/H. When I checked again last Friday, those same drives were now $150 +$8 S/H. 3TB drives were selling for less than that. Their price now is out of sight.

Just going to have to wait for the rains to stop and production to start up again.

Originally Posted by Dartman

Yeah, duh, 2tb. it gets confusing when the first hard drive I ever bought was a 20 meg hard card I put in a Tandy 8088 sx XT computer back about 90.
Keep getting MB and TB mixed up

Originally Posted by TBoneit

Western Digital says loss of 60% of production.

Lenovo is saying "while also increasing our product costs at a time of widespread shortages".
And is also saying "we currently expect shortages to last into the first calendar quarter of 2012."

Originally Posted by Kelson

All just in time for the Christmas buying season. All those laptops, PS3's and X-Boxes that won't get sold.

Originally Posted by Ken.F

I don't know why but Best Buy hasn't raised their hard drive prices yet. I have three Seagate 2TB drives that I use for media storage, one Barracuda LP SATA internal and two GoFlex Desk USB 2.0 externals. The internal SATA drive is on sale for $75 and the USB external drives are $100. Free shipping for both.

Originally Posted by timtofly

I apologize if I offended you. I myself forgot, that USB could mean a Hard Drive. I am curious though if this "hard drive" trouble will not push solid state drives more and we could see them drop in price.

I never had a Tandy, but I do remember paying $500 for a 4 meg memory Dimm (actually I bought 2 @ $1,000.00). Now the price ratio is in the total opposite direction. $8.00 for 16,000 meg.

Originally Posted by jjeff

To me more annoying than the light is the constant loud beeping(every 10 seconds or so) when the power is out to my 350va APC. My bedroom LCD, DVDR, and DVD player is on a older 350va APC and gives a loud chirp when the power goes out and a series of loud beeps ~every 10 seconds after that! It's so bad that I generally turn if OFF during the outage. I'm not sure if one can disable the beeps or even set it up to not beep at all....