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Paul's Syntech brand?

Paul's Syntech brand?

2008-02-25 by LD

I own a 17" analog color tv brand name 'SYNTECH' (I am not making this 
up!), Obviously manufactured by Paul.
I found it at the salvation army thrift store here for $10..
It has a lousy analog tuner, that easily overloads when i feed it tv 
signals from my Philips 46db gain amplified rabbit ears,
when I set the gain at anything over 10%!
Fortuantely the best buy DTV/analog tv converter box I just bought 
solves this problem.
Further this tv evidently uses non standard IR remote control codes, 
that are not available with any IR universal remote I know of!
Still the converter IR control still will change ch and volume..I can 
not program it however to turn the set on and off..
Paul what other consumer electronic devices do you manufacture under 
your Syntech brand name?
Are the rest as mediocre as my tv set, ha! Are you ashamed to list them 
on the MOTM web site?

Re: [motm] Paul's Syntech brand?

2008-02-25 by Dave Bradley

Paul is SYNTHTECH, not SYNTECH.

Just sayin'.

Moe

On 2/25/08, LD <mr_l@...> wrote:
> I own a 17" analog color tv brand name 'SYNTECH' (I am not making this
> up!), Obviously manufactured by Paul.
> I found it at the salvation army thrift store here for $10..
> It has a lousy analog tuner, that easily overloads when i feed it tv
> signals from my Philips 46db gain amplified rabbit ears,
> when I set the gain at anything over 10%!
> Fortuantely the best buy DTV/analog tv converter box I just bought
> solves this problem.
> Further this tv evidently uses non standard IR remote control codes,
> that are not available with any IR universal remote I know of!
> Still the converter IR control still will change ch and volume..I can
> not program it however to turn the set on and off..
> Paul what other consumer electronic devices do you manufacture under
> your Syntech brand name?
> Are the rest as mediocre as my tv set, ha! Are you ashamed to list them
> on the MOTM web site?
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Dave Bradley

Re: [motm] Paul's Syntech brand?

2008-02-25 by groovyshaman

LMAO!!

-George

LD wrote:
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> I own a 17" analog color tv brand name 'SYNTECH' (I am not making this 
> up!), Obviously manufactured by Paul.
> I found it at the salvation army thrift store here for $10..
> It has a lousy analog tuner, that easily overloads when i feed it tv 
> signals from my Philips 46db gain amplified rabbit ears,
> when I set the gain at anything over 10%!
> Fortuantely the best buy DTV/analog tv converter box I just bought 
> solves this problem.
> Further this tv evidently uses non standard IR remote control codes, 
> that are not available with any IR universal remote I know of!
> Still the converter IR control still will change ch and volume..I can 
> not program it however to turn the set on and off..
> Paul what other consumer electronic devices do you manufacture under 
> your Syntech brand name?
> Are the rest as mediocre as my tv set, ha! Are you ashamed to list them 
> on the MOTM web site?

Re: [motm] Paul's Syntech brand?

2008-02-25 by eric f

Oh I built the kit. You really have to smash it down to make it fit in the 5U rack. In the end I sold it since the sound it made was too unpredictable and no amount of filtering would change that. I'd be tweaking away at the knobs and suddenly it would be all "I'll be there for yooooou.." Disgusting.
cheers,
eric f

groovyshaman wrote:
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LMAO!!

-George

LD wrote:
> I own a 17" analog color tv brand name 'SYNTECH' (I am not making this
> up!), Obviously manufactured by Paul.
> I found it at the salvation army thrift store here for $10..
> It has a lousy analog tuner, that easily overloads when i feed it tv
> signals from my Philips 46db gain amplified rabbit ears,
> when I set the gain at anything over 10%!
> Fortuantely the best buy DTV/analog tv converter box I just bought
> solves this problem.
> Further this tv evidently uses non standard IR remote control codes,
> that are not available with any IR universal remote I know of!
> Still the converter IR control still will change ch and volume..I can
> not program it however to turn the set on and off..
> Paul what other consumer electronic devices do you manufacture under
> your Syntech brand name?
> Are the rest as mediocre as my tv set, ha! Are you ashamed to list them
> on the MOTM web site?

Re: [motm] Paul's Syntech brand?

2008-02-26 by KA4HJH

>Paul what other consumer electronic devices do you manufacture under
>your Syntech brand name?
>Are the rest as mediocre as my tv set, ha! Are you ashamed to list them
>on the MOTM web site?

I was wondering something similar. Now that the courts have made adult toys
legal in Texas, are you going to be offering a special module for
electro-thrillseekers? I've been told the magic number is about 60V. Robert
Rich could really connect with his audience in a whole new way.

Perhaps you could sell it under the "Sintech" brand...

-- 

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

Re: [motm] Paul's Syntech brand?

2008-02-26 by Ben Stuyts

On 25 Feb 2008, at 23:09, LD wrote:

> Are the rest as mediocre as my tv set, ha! Are you ashamed to list  
> them
> on the MOTM web site?

At least you finally got your TV. (Must have been from the MOTV 0.5  
era?) The rest of us are still waiting. ;-)

Ben

Re: [motm] Paul's Syntech brand?

2008-02-26 by Scott

Look for a TANDY label on the back, that's a sure sign it was made by  
Paul. ;-)
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> I own a 17" analog color tv brand name 'SYNTECH' (I am not making this
> up!), Obviously manufactured by Paul.
> I found it at the salvation army thrift store here for $10..
> It has a lousy analog tuner, that easily overloads when i feed it tv
> signals from my Philips 46db gain amplified rabbit ears,
> when I set the gain at anything over 10%!
> Fortuantely the best buy DTV/analog tv converter box I just bought
> solves this problem.
> Further this tv evidently uses non standard IR remote control codes,
> that are not available with any IR universal remote I know of!
> Still the converter IR control still will change ch and volume..I can
> not program it however to turn the set on and off..
> Paul what other consumer electronic devices do you manufacture under
> your Syntech brand name?
> Are the rest as mediocre as my tv set, ha! Are you ashamed to list  
> them
> on the MOTM web site?