Recent content by Rupert

I was wondering if, in the event of a 5-year warranty, if the set was to be condemned, could I claim that it was no longer 'of merchantable quality' and get the original purchase cost towards a new, slightly more updated telly? Just a thought!

Thanks Bill. The user manual does actually address this issue in the FAQ section 'Parts of the TV become hot'. It advises: 'Even if the temperature of parts of the front, top and rear panels has risen, these temperature rises do not cause any problems in terms of performance or quality'. I'll...

Thanks bigboss, I intend to ring them on Monday to see what arrangements they have to provide a service engineer. The user guide just says in the event of service contact your local Panasonic dealer. These days you'd be hard put to find a TV retail outlet anywhere, let alone a 'Panasonic...

My Panasonic TX-39AS600 TV died on us for a short while this afternoon while we were watching the tennis. My wife activated a channel change key on the remote control and it just went off. The red stand-by light went out too, something which normally only happens when I turn off the mains...

Thanks for your reply, bigboss. Thank you for the link, macdiddy .. I'd already seen that page and was wondering what the difference is between the two 2-disc offerings (apart from £7, of course!). I presume the second disc has outtakes, interviews with the stars and 'how the film was made'...

My all time favourite film is Blade Runner (before that it was 2001: A Space Odyssey) and having owned all the various formats I currently have the collectors pack which features the final director's cut in Blu-ray format ... amazing! I've just read the review of Bladerunner 2049 in the online...

Thanks bigboss, this looks interesting, although the illustration makes it look a bit 'Heath Robinson' around the button/green light area. He seems to have sold a helluva lot of them .. do you know anybody who's used one? Presumably, with that many sold, it won't cause damage to any of the...

The region management information for my Panasonic DMP-BDT700 (3 years old) says: The unit can play back BD-Video/DVD-Video discs of the following regions codes, including 'ALL' .. and there follows a couple of diagrammatic examples, one with the letter 'B' within a square and the other with the...

Further to my post I thought (if anyone's interested) that I'd update things by saying that, with a little advice from the Sennheiser technical department over the phone, I managed to remove both capsules from the headband without causing any damage. The moulding of the outer case of the...

My old Sennheiser HD250 Linear headphones have finally died for good and are deemed irreparable. I have since purchased a really clean pair of HD250 Linear II with which I'm delighted. Sennheiser can still supply capsules for the Linear II (but not the Linear I), so I got to thinking that...

In many reviews of mid to high end headphones (I guess around £400+) there is mention of how a dedicated headphone amp can often 'really bring the best out of' the phones under review. Having recently purchased a pair of Shure SRH1540 and so far finding them pretty good to my foggy old ears, I...

I have owned a pair of SRH1540 for just a couple of days .. I bought them because I wasn't particularly impressed with the Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 that I have since returned. My own first impressions are favourable, perhaps not quite as open sounding as the many reviews led me to expect, but a...

Hi Gray, Just by way of a follow-up ... I managed to open the offending capsule without breaking anything, carefully peeling away all the little foam rings in the process. I was able to identify two copper wires, each no thicker than a fine hair, one of which was clearly detached (I could lift...

In a previous post it was suggested that a remedy to the issue of one of the capsules of my elderly HD250s suddenly and unexpectedly dying on me, might be to open the capsule and check the connections between the coil and where the audio lead plugs in. Can anyone tell me, please, how do I open...

Hi Gray .. thanks for your helpful and sympathetic response. The lead failing was literally as a result of the wire within the cover becoming frayed and occasionally disconnecting, in the same sort of way that a poor mobile phone signal causes speech to break up from time to time. I was able to...