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Disable blue screen on VCR
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wrote in message ... I have has it with these VCR's that turn the screen blue when the signal gets weak. I live in a rural area and am used to weak reception, since the nearest station is 60 miles away. Having a signal get fuzzy and losing a few words of the sound is not that big of a deal, but when I am watching something, or worse yet, taped something and that god damn blue screen keeps popping on and off is more than I can take. The first VCR that did that I threw in the trash. I thought it was just a bad VCR. So I buy another one and it did the same god damn thing. That one got me so angry I threw the ****ing thing thru the livingroom window, which cost me almost $100 to repair the window. I just bought an old one at an rummage sale, hoping it would not have that ****ing blue screen. Wrong, I just tossed that one out the door, only 5 minutes after hooking it up for the first time and it's in 10 or more pieces on the lawn. The asshole that put that into the VCRs should be hung in times square by his ****ing cock. At least they could have put a disable switch somewhere on the thing. Is there a way to disable it? MY Hitachi VCRs have that as a setting in setup. But why do you let the VCRs control you that way? RwP |
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Disable blue screen on VCR
I have has it with these VCR's that turn the screen blue when the
signal gets weak. I live in a rural area and am used to weak reception, since the nearest station is 60 miles away. Having a signal get fuzzy and losing a few words of the sound is not that big of a deal, but when I am watching something, or worse yet, taped something and that god damn blue screen keeps popping on and off is more than I can take. The first VCR that did that I threw in the trash. I thought it was just a bad VCR. So I buy another one and it did the same god damn thing. That one got me so angry I threw the ****ing thing thru the livingroom window, which cost me almost $100 to repair the window. I just bought an old one at an rummage sale, hoping it would not have that ****ing blue screen. Wrong, I just tossed that one out the door, only 5 minutes after hooking it up for the first time and it's in 10 or more pieces on the lawn. The asshole that put that into the VCRs should be hung in times square by his ****ing cock. At least they could have put a disable switch somewhere on the thing. Is there a way to disable it? I've never worked with a vcr which didn't have this as an option in setup menu. If you really allow a machine to get to you this much, are you sure you should be allowed near mains electricity? And other people? :-) |
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Disable blue screen on VCR
Yes it is a funny rant. If I am in a bad mood, the worst thing for my
attitude is to watch the news !!!! -- change .combo to .com for correct email ************************************************** * "We ought always to know precisely why a given job is done in a particular way, and why it is done at all, and why it can't be done more efficiently, if it must be done at all."-- T.J.Watson ************************************************** * "Dave D" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... On 26 Aug 2003 03:12:19 GMT, (LASERandDVDfan) wrote: Some VCRs have a blue-screen defeat, like some older Sharp VCRs, while others don't, like some Panasonic VCRs. If you want a VCR that doesn't have the blue-screen, then look for a machine that was made before 1990. Avoid Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Magnavox, Sylvania, Quasar, JCPenney, and Teknika decks made after 1987. I actually feel sorry for those VCRs you needlessly destroyed. A very violent and wasteful attitude, that it is. At the very least, you could have sold them in a garage sale and made some money off of them. - Reinhart Now that I have cooled down....... Thanks for the advice from everyone. All the brands you mentioned are the ones I have had. 2 Panasonics and 1 Magnavox. I will look for an older one, or another model mentioned that has a disable switch or programming. As far as why these vcr's get to me. I work 12 or more hours a day farming, and get little to show for it. Then I come in the house and got to listen to the lard queen bitching about the frikkin blue screen on the tv and everything else she can find to complain about. All she does all day is sit on her fat ass and eat and get fatter. The tv tuner does not work, so the vcr is the tuner. So, I get home totally exhausted, then listen to her bitching for several hours, and finally have a few minutes to myself. I sit down to relax and watch the news, and that damn screen keeps flipping from the program to blue every few seconds. There goes my relaxing, and my temper. Especially lately since the temperature has been near 100 every day. Yes, I could buy a new tv, and even get a satelite dish, but I watch tv maybe 3 hours a week, tops.... The lard queen has it on from the time she gets up till I get rid of her at night. I already told her to get off her lazy ass and get a job, and buy a frikkin tv, but all she does is sit and eat and eat and eat, while I watch my money turn into lard. I figure there are two things I need most in life. A vcr that dont turn the screen blue and a divorce. I don't ask for much from life, I just want to watch the news after a hard days work without the screen turning blue and without the background bitching. Thanks again Gordy That is one of the most amusing rants I've had the pleasure to read. I hope you don't mind but I just had to forward it to my friends :-) Dave |
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