[TechAssist] Re: HDTV future
- From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:31:02 -0400
I agree Jerry, if you had a large enough operation so you could have a VCR
specialist or a camera specialist, it could have been quite profitable at
one time. But for a one man shop like mine it was never going to be. While
in the 30s through the 70s a one man TV shop was practical. Most grew larger
because they had to due to customer demand, not because the original owner
wanted to.
Russ Hoyt
Hoyt's TV
Exeter, NH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Silverman" <greentron@xxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:24 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: HDTV future
> 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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