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OK, I just came home with a new Samsung HD flat screen TV and the TV Guide Display is a thousand times better and so are the graphics on everything else. My biggest criticism is that I think the communication was handled poorly. Couldn't we at least have been given some advance notice about this so we wouldn't be caught off guard and not knowing that the issue with the menu display could either have to do with the STB or having an analog TV? And actually, there really was no communication about this. It was just sprung on us and I feel like I was left in the dark to figure out what was going on.

Verizon, I hope this feedback is making a difference.

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Mubble

Grats on the new TV! My 50" Panny is waiting for the update 🙂

questioning_old

Congratulations? On a new TV? Well, I didn't win it from a game show. lol...It's 26" which is fine for my needs.

I remember some people were congratulating me on getting Fios and I was asking myself "why". It's not like I worked for it or did something spectacular to deserve it. lol...It all came about from "necessity".

Mubble

You don't sound like an easy going guy so... Congratulations on making the life choices that have enabled you the means of living in a FiOS network and the purchasing power to have a Samsung and not a Symphonic TV. Sorry you feel Verizon made you buy a new TV lol. I think it's time to pitch the hundred pound tube in the trash anyway. I'm glad Verizon is making you old farts get with the times LOL. I'm just kiddin with ya 🙂

questioning_old

I was kidding with my reply to the "congratulations". I know you were just trying to be supportive. It's just not really a major life accomplishment for me, not even quite as important as buying a car. What choice did I really have? Why all of a sudden is an analog TV considered garbage? We relied on that for decades and it was never a problem and I never made a stink over antenna reception. You're forced in the end to make these purchases when these changes are thrown at you. Call me "old school" or an "old timer" but I just don't understand why all of this is so necessary and why I need all of these extra features that are either non-essential or that I know I'll never use. I think the whole thing has gotten complicated.

I was raised to keep a lot of things until the bitter end, i.e. until they don't work anymore, and not to waste things or to junk something for the sake of change even if it's not really necessary. I really did think it was unfortunate to have to pull the plug on an appliance that I haven't really had for that long and that was working well with its capabilities. I have an "older" cell phone which isn't good for texting but I never text. It doesn't have the bigger screen with the keyboard but I only have my cell phone for emergencies and as long as it's still working and doesn't get thrown in the laundry, I truly could care less. lol

prisaz

@Mubble wrote:
You don't sound like an easy going guy so... Congratulations on making the life choices that have enabled you the means of living in a FiOS network and the purchasing power to have a Samsung and not a Symphonic TV. Sorry you feel Verizon made you buy a new TV lol. I think it's time to pitch the hundred pound tube in the trash anyway. I'm glad Verizon is making you old farts get with the times LOL. I'm just kiddin with ya 🙂

Take it to an electronic recycling location. Those old tubes have a lot of bad stuff in them. Also there are many components that have metals in them that can be reused and also contain things bad for the environment. Smiley Wink

When I took my 36" Sony tube, the chasis was taken apart from the rest. That is the only was to make it down the stairs. I am not as young as when I bought it. If you do that, watch out for that high voltage going to the tube. The 25,00 vold stat charge can knock you on your can.

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