The simple truth. If they are really unhappy i refer them to the store they bought it from.Expkain nicely, and charge by the hour. Al Leatherman 224 RT. 46 Mine Hill, NJ 07803 973-361-5796 WWW.ALS-TV.NET ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitchell TV" <mitchelltv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Tech Assist" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:24 AM Subject: [TechAssist] low res on a hi res > Any of you guys running into customers with high dollar plasma, DLP, or > LCD > wide screen sets, hooked up to a standard cable box only? These people are > complaining of pixelization, fuzzy pictures, etc. when they are watching a > NTSC picture from the cable box on channel 3. They cant understand why > this > new expensive TV looks worse than their old TV. > > Seems the sales staff at Circuit Buy, etc., have, as usual, promised the > moon, and failed to deliver. These customers (mostly elderly) have no idea > what 480i, 720p,1080i is, they have never heard of up conversion, don't > know > a component video cable from a garden hose, and simply don't understand > why > the TV picture pretty much stinks. > > I have even been to a few places where the customer had a HD Sat Receiver, > outputting 1080i, hooked up with component cables, and the customer is > watching local broadcast NTSC programming, crappy, pixels, and stretched. > HD > programming looked great. Customers question: why does the game on CBS > look > so bad on my new HDTV? duh, IT'S NOT IN HD!! (no, cant say that, customer > service specialist you know.) > > What kind of stuff are you guys using , or saying to help the old guy down > the street understand the HD experience. > > > Greg Mitchell > Mitchell TV > 408 S. 11th Street > Niles, MI 49120 > 269-683-0868 > 269-683-1501 Fax > mitchelltv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is Public. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/