TV Power Bars/Lines - I think I’m a Foo Covert!

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Chaps,

Not really audio visual but bear with me! Now I’m not really a TV person, in fact if it wasn’t for sport I may not even have, I’m very political, probably the legacy of working in Whitehall, but for that I prefer radio, and obviously for music.

However, until last week I had my main TV with GoogleChrome, DVD (cheap) and EE box plugged into an Olsen 6 way gang and to my (66 year old) eyes I thought the picture sharp, nicely saturated, plenty of detail and actually sound half okay. I’d had the Olson 20+ years, originally for the main hifi before I had the independent radial, good surge protection and VFM I thought.

Anyway, Wednesday AM the trip on the back of the house flipped and after a restart noticed that nothing on the Olsen Bar was working. Unplugged her, lid off, and the fuse had gone. On the grounds that a fuse doesn’t just blow on the advice of an electrician friend I retired the Olson and replaced with a standard Masterplug Surge that was hanging around.

All working okay, but I’m thinking the picture quality isn’t as sharp, saturated etc. Could I be imagining? It is hot after all!

Any experiences guys?

Regards,

Lindsay

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If a cheap mains block has surge protection and an LED it probably isn’t doing you any favours. I have no experience of these things with TV, but I did find that such a block that I used temporarily for the HiFi degraded the sound significantly. Do you really need surge protection?

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No, that’s very interesting, thanks.

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My dealer always stressed to me, if you need to use a block make sure it’s either a top quality one or the cheapest you can find - definitely no surge protection and not even a light to indicate power.

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Thanks guys.