scary service mode

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I just found out how to put my Samsung into service mode, and good
lord, there must be about 150 separate adjustments in there.

I found a test pattern and discovered that my screen geometry was not
nearly as good as I thought it was... totally making wide spots where
the bright patches are, distorting horizontal lines at the corners, all
kinds of horrible stuff. Yet I did not see the pincushioning of
verticals that I expected -- which is the one geometry error that I
sometimes notice in real viewing, particularly when pillarboxing gives
you a nice vertical to notice it on. Of course, the set hadn't been on
very long and so may have still been cold...

Don't worry, no way am I going to mess with trying to adjust anything.

In the meantime, I tried to fight back against the evil power of
television by installing Half-Life 2, only to be told that my CD key
was already owned by someone else even though I bought it brand new.

 

[mickeddie]

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Unless your cd key has to go over the internet (which it shouldn't) how
does the computer know it's been used?

Take it back to the store and exchange it if you want...could be it was
re-wrapped.

Eddie G

 

[Guest]

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can you tell us how do put the samsung into service mode?
thanks
tsoglan

<paul-NOZPAM@paulkienitz.net> wrote in message
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>I just found out how to put my Samsung into service mode, and good
> lord, there must be about 150 separate adjustments in there.
>
> I found a test pattern and discovered that my screen geometry was not
> nearly as good as I thought it was... totally making wide spots where
> the bright patches are, distorting horizontal lines at the corners, all
> kinds of horrible stuff. Yet I did not see the pincushioning of
> verticals that I expected -- which is the one geometry error that I
> sometimes notice in real viewing, particularly when pillarboxing gives
> you a nice vertical to notice it on. Of course, the set hadn't been on
> very long and so may have still been cold...
>
> Don't worry, no way am I going to mess with trying to adjust anything.
>
> In the meantime, I tried to fight back against the evil power of
> television by installing Half-Life 2, only to be told that my CD key
> was already owned by someone else even though I bought it brand new.
>

 

[Guest]

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micked...@comcast.net wrote:

> Unless your cd key has to go over the internet (which it shouldn't)

It does.

> how does the computer know it's been used?
>
> Take it back to the store and exchange it if you want...could be it
was
> re-wrapped.

It turns out that this is happening to tons of people with this game;
apparently pirates have been generating and registering fake CD keys in
large numbers, enough to knock out a significant percentage of the
legitimate keys that haven't even been bought yet.