Any gremlins with this TV?

[yh125d]

I found a 52" 1080p Mitsubishi DLP TV on craigslist today for $250, gonna try to check it out today or tomorrow. I was wondering if theres anything I should keep an eye out for or should know about before buying. They say the bulb was repaced once "because the kids turning it on and off often". I remember hearing that mitsu TVs aren't the best brand, but even a mediocre 52" 1080p DLP that's functioning properly has to be worth $250

Thoughts?

 

[yh125d]

Also, purchased Jan 13 '07 for $1709, they didn't mention a specific model #

 

[NutBucket]

Well, turning the tv on and off a lot does shorten the bulb's life so that's not any real reason for concern.

Other than that the only other failure points are the light engine and color wheel. For $250 it seems like a decent gamble. A new 60" unit starts at about $800.

 

[sivart]

If they demo with a Blu-ray called Gremlins, I would say keep the light off during the demo

I would ask the model number prior to seeing it in person....also who cares how much they paid 3 years ago. Not relevant to the price you should pay.

 

[yh125d]

I bought it. Barely fit in my car! Light though, currently serving as my monitor until I get a HT setup


Theres some overscan though.. researching how to get it fixed atm

 

[NutBucket]

I may be speaking prematurely but it may be a reality of DLP. I have a new set that overscans and it is my understanding that its by design. I may be wrong though.

 

[Krazy4Real]

My dlp over scans as well.

 

[yh125d]

I can take it down to like 1770x1000 and see the whole screen until I get it fixed (I should be able to once I get my drivers figured out. It's dumb there are just no H/V size adjusters though...

 

[NutBucket]

There should be adjustments in the service menu. Same with geometry adjustments.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Well, for one thing overscan is by design for TV's. ALL feeds are done with the express expectation of up to 5% overscan. The overscan area is also used to store extra information, such as closed-captioning (for those that do not have overscan, you will notice a few lines of pixels across the top of the screen which are a bunch of white/black blocks that are constantly shifing...that would be the CC feed).

As for fixing it with a PC, your video drivers have this capability (well, at least Nvidia and ATI, not sure about Intel). The Nvidia fix is pretty straight forward in their drivers under the TV section I believe. ATI is the most convoluted thing in the world! They have a bunch of idiots over there working on the interface. See my post over at avsforums for how to find it in the current drivers:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18223608#post18223608

Or see this post:
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=119282

 

[yh125d]

Well, for one thing overscan is by design for TV's. ALL feeds are done with the express expectation of up to 5% overscan. The overscan area is also used to store extra information, such as closed-captioning (for those that do not have overscan, you will notice a few lines of pixels across the top of the screen which are a bunch of white/black blocks that are constantly shifing...that would be the CC feed).

As for fixing it with a PC, your video drivers have this capability (well, at least Nvidia and ATI, not sure about Intel). The Nvidia fix is pretty straight forward in their drivers under the TV section I believe. ATI is the most convoluted thing in the world! They have a bunch of idiots over there working on the interface. See my post over at avsforums for how to find it in the current drivers:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18223608#post18223608

Or see this post:
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=119282

See my thread regarding my problems getting to the overscan/underscan option in CCC 10.2
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2055548&highlight=

Does it have to be HDMI to enable the scaling tab? Right now I have it as DVI cause I can't find a long enough HDMI cord