No One
Told You About
Plasma
TV Care And Cleaning?
You'll Hate Yourself Later!
• "What
do you mean, care and cleaning? I grew up with a television in my
house, didn’t I? Everybody knows how to take care of a TV . .
. right? You just dust it off every couple of months and
don’t let the kids chew on the power cord . . . right?"
•
Well-l-l,
there’s a little more to it than that when you own a Plasma
TV. Some of it’s common sense, but a lot of it’s unique
to caring for the Plasma technology.
•
Bottom
line: you need to know what you’re doing to protect your
expensive new TV from damage. You’re in luck . . .
we’re gonna tell you!
The
Best 7 Ways To Avoid
Damaging Your New Plasma TV
• •
Buy A
Good Surge Protector Spring
for a quality surge
protector with a reset button and power switch. A phone line or
ethernet surge protector for your modem and a coax surge protector
for cable TV are great features to look for. If you can’t
find these features on a power surge protector you can order them
separately. A basic surge protector costs less than $10, and a
really good one costs $30 - $50. There’s no excuse for not
connecting every major appliance in your house to one. One
lightning strike, one power surge and your $2,500 flat screen TV
could be fried!
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•
Keep
Your Plasma TV Upright whether
you’re moving it, installing it, storing or displaying it.
You should never lay your Plasma flat on it’s face, even if
the directions tell you to. The plasma elements that make up the
picture are sandwiched between two thin layers of glass. If these
glass panels crack, your TV screen will be ruined.
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•
Avoid
Touching The Screen Handle
the TV only by the sides and bottom. Do your best not to touch the
screen; don’t rub, scrub, tap, hit or touch it, since this
could scratch, mar or permanently damage the screen. I actually
want to encourage you not to touch the screen with your bare hands.
(Good luck keeping the kids away from it!)
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•
Cleaning
Your Plasma can
present special challenges. You shouldn’t use dust cloths,
chemical cleansers, sprays, alcohol or aerosols. Please don’t
rub the screen, you should dust it gently with absorbent cotton
or chamois only.
It’s best to unplug the TV before you begin cleaning.
•
•
Be
Careful That Your Plasma Doesn’t Tip Over Most table stands are
well designed, but when your teenager reenacts Kobe’s
fantastic slam dunk or your toddler jumps up to slap Sponge Bob,
you don’t want a 150 lb. Plasma TV toppling over on them.
Make sure your TV stand is sturdy, large enough to hold your TV
(6-inches wider than the base) and is positioned against a wall,
away from doorways and foot traffic.
•
•
Make
Sure Your Wall Mount Is Properly Installed A
correctly installed wall mount has little chance of allowing your
TV to tip over; just one
more reason to get a professional installation. If Harry Handyman
from next door installs your Plasma and the mount comes off the
wall, you could be facing substantial damage or injury. If you
don’t know how to run wiring inside your wall, get a pro to
do it.
•
•
Avoid
Screen Burn-In Plasma displays have
improved recently, but screen burn-in is still possible. Static
images that don’t move or change, like video game scores, TV
station logos, stock ticker displays and computer programs can burn
images permanently into the screen. It may take weeks, months or
years for the damage to become permanent, but it certainly
can.
Magnavox 42 Plasma HDTV Black
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Samsung FPT6374 
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Guide
To Plasma TV
• • Special
care must be taken when handling a Plasma TV, especially when
touching or cleaning the display screen.
•
• With
proper care, your Plasma will give your family decades of brilliant
service and lasting memories. Just crank up Days of Our Lives and
enjoy!
It's as easy as 1 2
3!
