Secret menus on modern sets

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Originally Posted by Chad Hauris

Also these stations are probably just operating with a single master control operator late night. I don't know if they have found a way yet to totally automate TV stations like radio stations often are but they may have.
There is no requirement for a transmitter engineer to be at the transmitter all the time like there once was.

Yeah, they automate TV stations. Univision I believe is really bad about it. The good thing about this is if you could figure out what the STL link was, you could broadcast your own TV without getting cut off for probably a couple minutes.

As for these hidden menus in the beginning of this thread; when I was a manager at a McDonald's I used to be responsible for cleaning our shake machine, being the technophile that I am, I naturally uncovered the service manual, hidden on a shelf in the corner of the back office. The machine had a menu that you used to change various settings on it (like the date/time, what time of day the sanitation cycle took place, etc.), however, the actual "service menu" that changed settings and wrote them in ROM was hidden behind a special password that a Taylor technician had to call the head office, and they had a database with what serial number corresponded to what password--IE, no one other than a Taylor guy could access the service menu.

So maybe TV menus aren't the same, but I'd imagine some sets have to have password protected menus to keep you and I from fixing the set ourselves and to generate a costly service call from an LG repairman.

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I opened up the rear of my GE (CTC-178) to lower the blue levels to look somewhere near normal instead... lo and behold: printed directions glued to the inside of the cabinet. Lowered the bias or drive (I forget which) a few years ago for a gorgeous natural-looking pic.
Tom