Module for the Controlling of TV

Apparently the girl I talked to last week wasn't as much of an expert technician as she seemed... I got the parts delivery from Polaroid today, and well... yah.

Apparently the "control module" is Polaroid's way of describing "everything except the screen and plastic case". There's only two or three connectors that connect the module to the LCD and power, so I could easy replace this if I wanted. I have no desire to void my warranty though, so I'm going to let an 'expert' do it. Hopefully Polaroid follows up like they said they would and schedules a repair appointment. I'd like to have my TV back.

Travis Stoliker :: 08/22/2007, 1:43 pm :: Reply

Do you really have that much of a problem w/ bandwidth that you need to put up that "stop hot linking images" thing? It makes your RSS feed pretty lame.

Jay :: 08/22/2007, 2:23 pm :: Reply

@Travis: works fine for me in google reader, though I've seen similar behavior from other sites in the past and it does make for lame-tastic RSS.

Mike Neir :: 08/22/2007, 3:01 pm :: Reply

Heh... oops. It was never about bandwidth. It was to mess with people trying to steal my images... Hence the giant Kirk graphic. I removed the hotlink stuff, so it should be nicer now.

Jay :: 08/22/2007, 2:22 pm :: Reply

Honestly I can't believe you've stuck with it for this long as it is. At least there's a little progress now...

Mike Neir :: 08/22/2007, 3:04 pm :: Reply

Yah... it's been a pain, that's for sure. I paid like $700 for the TV, and it's just been laying on my floor at home, so there's not really any way I'm going to forget about it.

Phil :: 08/23/2007, 2:37 pm :: Reply

It doesn't actually surprise me that much. Things have gotten so complicated that you can't train 'repair technicians' well enough to figure anything out (let alone the "HELPless" desk). So, you repair things by swapping modules. You swap everything until the problem disappears. They just bypassed all of the in-between steps this time and replaced ALL of the modules. (Don't you replace the computer when the HD goes bad?)

Mike Neir :: 08/23/2007, 3:42 pm :: Reply

Yah... true story. Makes it a lot easier to "fix" what's wrong if you replace the whole unit...