[TechAssist] Re: HDTV future
- From: "Jerome Silverman" <greentron@xxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:24:23 -0400
My technicians made a very good living fixing vcrs and camcorders from 1982
to 1992, but nothing came along in consumer electronics to take its place.
The company just broke even at best because high tech service was expensive
to support.
Jerry Silverman
Greentron Inc
4 Newland Ave Greenville SC 29609
Fax/Phone 864 232 3889
greentron@xxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:10 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: HDTV future
> I'll make less, because I'm not investing in the equipment to service it.
> Now you younger guys who MAY have 20 or 30 years to recover the cost might
> find it worth it but based on the last 20 years of changes I've seen, I
> regret buying that VC93 that I used only once, proving that a customer
would
> not pay for the cost of repairing anything that needed to have me use it.
>
> I'm sure glad I didn't buy the equipment needed to repair wireless phones.
> I'm also glad I didn't spend $5000 on the exerciser needed to repair cell
> phones and program them.
> Cellular One said I would be able to charge $100 to program the phone
after
> they sold it. That was about 6 months before they began selling phones
that
> could be programmed at the point of sale with NO equipment at all.
>
> Everything I've seen come our way in the past 20 to 30 years was supposed
to
> be THE thing we would be able to, at last, make some decent money
repairing.
> They lied about all of it.
>
> Russ Hoyt
> Hoyt's TV
> Exeter, NH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh @ Main TV" <maintv2004@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:42 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] HDTV future
>
>
> > Ok, next subject--- when HDTV gets here for good and NTSC is past, how
> > does everyone think we will do in repair compared with now?
> > Will we make more or less?
> > www.Longmontmaintv.com
> > Main TV - 636 Main St.
> > Longmont, Co. 80501
> > Tel.303-776-6955 Fax 303-776-0792
>
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