DaleI
Stunt Coordinator
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- Jun 5, 2001
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I was excited this morning because I knew by afternoon I would have a Toshiba 51h83 upstairs in my home theater.
Well...The two delivery men took it off the truck as I watched them. They had to take it out of the box to get it up the one step and inside the front door.
The hard part was getting it up six stairs and around the corner in the desired room. As the two men struggled up the stairs, we heard what sounded like loose change with each step they took--coming from the rear of the TV. Only after getting it in the room, one of the guys noticed the screen: it was chipped in several places, and the top two corners of the set were cracked too. After they left there were small chips of glass everywhere. Back down the steps with the TV they came, disgusted with themselves for not inspecting it earlier.
I don't believe I'm going out on a limb by suggesting that the loose change sound wasn't normal--even tilting it to go upstairs. And unless they hit every pothole along the route, the delivery men weren't to blame since I watched their every step.
Oh well, this has happened to many of you, I'm sure.
It makes me think just how rugged the Toshiba is--it shakens your confidence a bit. Are all RPTVs that delicate that tilting it makes it sound like a slot machine? It really sounded like a few hundred coins shaking around in there.
Now I await another delivery date and hopefully a pristine set!
--Dale
Well...The two delivery men took it off the truck as I watched them. They had to take it out of the box to get it up the one step and inside the front door.
The hard part was getting it up six stairs and around the corner in the desired room. As the two men struggled up the stairs, we heard what sounded like loose change with each step they took--coming from the rear of the TV. Only after getting it in the room, one of the guys noticed the screen: it was chipped in several places, and the top two corners of the set were cracked too. After they left there were small chips of glass everywhere. Back down the steps with the TV they came, disgusted with themselves for not inspecting it earlier.
I don't believe I'm going out on a limb by suggesting that the loose change sound wasn't normal--even tilting it to go upstairs. And unless they hit every pothole along the route, the delivery men weren't to blame since I watched their every step.
Oh well, this has happened to many of you, I'm sure.
It makes me think just how rugged the Toshiba is--it shakens your confidence a bit. Are all RPTVs that delicate that tilting it makes it sound like a slot machine? It really sounded like a few hundred coins shaking around in there.
Now I await another delivery date and hopefully a pristine set!
--Dale