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THE WORD MUST BE SPREAD!
13 years ago
Hello everyone. Andrew here wanting to discuss with you all about something. And you all should spread the word to anyone looking to get a new flat-screen TV.
2 Christmas' ago (Or I think it was longer than that), my parents got me a flat-screen Sceptre TV. It wasn't as big as I wanted (I wanted it to be as big as the shelf where my old TV was), but I was happy with it at first. But then a few months later, I started to encounter some problems (And I'm still encountering problems to this very day).
The first problem I've encountered is the fact that it turns itself off automatically at random times. It would turn itself back on sometimes when it does that, but not often. You could imagine how annoying that is.
But if you want to know the really annoying part, here it is.
A year ago, after I got my X-Box 360, I wanted to get a 5-way auto-sensing audio/video selector switch so that I can play my X-Box & my X-Box 360 without replacing one of the console's RCA connector cables with the other console's over & over again. A month later, I start getting static on my screen & my speakers at random times on random days. And worse, when I get static on my screen, I can't turn the damn TV off. Only way to do that is to unplug it (Or in my case, flip the "Monitor" switch on the power box it's plugged into).
Not only that, but sometimes when I turn my TV on, I get a black screen. And when I get the black screen, I can't turn my TV off until I unplug it again.
When I told my friends & family about these problems, my Papa felt that it was because of the fact that I have so much stuff hooked up to it. I had my Audio/Video Selector Switch, my PC, & my MAC all connected to the TV. And one of my friends from work says it was the Audio/Video Selector Switch due to the fact that it was from RadioShack.
But I felt it was the TV because of all these problems I have encountered. The stuff that's connected to my TV wasn't even connected to my TV when I encountered the first problem. All that was connected back then was my DVD player or X-Box.
Well, I didn't discover the real problem until today when I got the Pac-Man Connect and Play TV-game from Kmart. 4 months ago, I felt my friend from work was right & I removed my Audio/Video Selector Switch.
Then today, when I brought home Pac-Man Connect and Play to play on my TV, you guessed it, I got static on my screen again! I went to go play it on my parent's living room TV and it works fine. Though to be honest, after playing a few of the games, it made me wish I got the SpongeBob SquarePants: Jellyfish Dodge TV game instead. You'll see what I mean when/if I review Pac-Man Connect and Play for my reviewing series.
At first, I felt it was Pac-Man Connect and Play that was the problem. So I decided to test my theory by playing my SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom 500 TV game to see what happens.
Because it worked fine on my Grandpa's guest room TV (It's a small old CRT-TV with a VCR connected to it) & the TVs at the Best Western hotel in Dixon (Their TVs were brand new).
Anyway, I tried it on my TV. And just as I feared, I got the "green & purple static screen of doom".
Bottom line, if you're a gamer & want to use your new TV to play games both on a console/computer or through Plug It In and Play TV Games, DO NOT get a Sceptre TV! They are a big rip off and it will frustrate you to the extreme!
2 Christmas' ago (Or I think it was longer than that), my parents got me a flat-screen Sceptre TV. It wasn't as big as I wanted (I wanted it to be as big as the shelf where my old TV was), but I was happy with it at first. But then a few months later, I started to encounter some problems (And I'm still encountering problems to this very day).
The first problem I've encountered is the fact that it turns itself off automatically at random times. It would turn itself back on sometimes when it does that, but not often. You could imagine how annoying that is.
But if you want to know the really annoying part, here it is.
A year ago, after I got my X-Box 360, I wanted to get a 5-way auto-sensing audio/video selector switch so that I can play my X-Box & my X-Box 360 without replacing one of the console's RCA connector cables with the other console's over & over again. A month later, I start getting static on my screen & my speakers at random times on random days. And worse, when I get static on my screen, I can't turn the damn TV off. Only way to do that is to unplug it (Or in my case, flip the "Monitor" switch on the power box it's plugged into).
Not only that, but sometimes when I turn my TV on, I get a black screen. And when I get the black screen, I can't turn my TV off until I unplug it again.
When I told my friends & family about these problems, my Papa felt that it was because of the fact that I have so much stuff hooked up to it. I had my Audio/Video Selector Switch, my PC, & my MAC all connected to the TV. And one of my friends from work says it was the Audio/Video Selector Switch due to the fact that it was from RadioShack.
But I felt it was the TV because of all these problems I have encountered. The stuff that's connected to my TV wasn't even connected to my TV when I encountered the first problem. All that was connected back then was my DVD player or X-Box.
Well, I didn't discover the real problem until today when I got the Pac-Man Connect and Play TV-game from Kmart. 4 months ago, I felt my friend from work was right & I removed my Audio/Video Selector Switch.
Then today, when I brought home Pac-Man Connect and Play to play on my TV, you guessed it, I got static on my screen again! I went to go play it on my parent's living room TV and it works fine. Though to be honest, after playing a few of the games, it made me wish I got the SpongeBob SquarePants: Jellyfish Dodge TV game instead. You'll see what I mean when/if I review Pac-Man Connect and Play for my reviewing series.
At first, I felt it was Pac-Man Connect and Play that was the problem. So I decided to test my theory by playing my SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom 500 TV game to see what happens.
Because it worked fine on my Grandpa's guest room TV (It's a small old CRT-TV with a VCR connected to it) & the TVs at the Best Western hotel in Dixon (Their TVs were brand new).
Anyway, I tried it on my TV. And just as I feared, I got the "green & purple static screen of doom".
Bottom line, if you're a gamer & want to use your new TV to play games both on a console/computer or through Plug It In and Play TV Games, DO NOT get a Sceptre TV! They are a big rip off and it will frustrate you to the extreme!
