scary service mode

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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.
>

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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.