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Old 05-13-2014, 11:48 AM
dieseljeep dieseljeep is offline
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Originally Posted by andy View Post
It just has generally poor performance. You can't get good picture, sound, and color at the same time when adjusting the fine tuning. Most channels have extremely bad adjacent channel interference. It wouldn't surprise me if someone tried to adjust it by eye at some point.

I realigned several Portacolors over the weekend. I was surprised how far off they all were. Even the ones that looked pretty good were noticeably better after an alignment. I discovered an open resistor in the IF circuit on one that wouldn't align properly. Initially it had extremely poor resolution.
I am seriously considering doing a complete alignment on two of my Porto-colors. The just don't seem to track right. If I run them with a cable box, they seem to work a bit better. Our cable is still analog on the channels 2-13.
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