687 - DTV

So I've got a DTV converter box on the TV in the kitchen. It does all the standard digital stuff. Digital drop out. Screen goes black and system has to resync. Digital looping where the same frame gets stuck in the buffer and keeps repeating for a few sec sec sec sec sec seconds.

Well I had a new twist today. Partial sound. The background sound was there; music, clinking glasses, cars, etc. The faces were on the screen. The lips were moving on the faces. But no voices were to be heard. What the hell is going on now?! My son and I are staring at this new phenomenon and he says "it's like we're listening to the side channels but the center channel isn't working". Which would have been a good assessment had the TV had more than one speaker.

Now what to do. Start through the menu/options of the converter box and see what got changed. There is a sound option. But it's for stereo or no stereo. And changing the option doesn't do anything. Next? Try the reset option. Hit that option and wait for all the channels to rescan and all the options to go back to factory default. Fixed? Nope.

Here comes the life lesson....... The one you learned early in your computer trick learning days........ Unplug the power from the little black converter box and plug it back in....... FIXED! What a piece of crap! Oh well. One more electronic piece of junk that has to be kicked back into the working state by a manual power surge.



Now that that's over with, Fiona ..... Bilbo ..... have you been to Rimas blog lately?