Geek Squad Takes Over Best Buy’s Home Theater Installs

What does this mean for the Magnolia Home Theater® group at Best Buy?

Can Best Buy last new construction installation business longer then CompUSA and Circuit City?

If I can speak somewhat irreverantly, despite what Best Buy’s marketing department wants to communicate about Geek Squad’s commitment to diversity in their employment practices, what percentage of Geek Squad’s installer force are serious, determined looking minority women (with great hair), like the one pictured?

I’m all for diversity, sure, but I have trouble reconciling the image they’re presenting with my perceptions about the Geek Squad.

I just fixed a mess best buy did in a house yesterday. there installers couldn’t even fish a simple wall for rears. they ran the fronts in a hvac   duct. the tv wires also were in hvac return. Custom shops have nothing to fear.

we are from Puerto Rico can you do a research of how is going to be in PR, we have other facts as concrete walls thats a challenge and knowledge of costumers wish is extremely different based on systems and design, we have to deal with those guys do that we are 100x35 island huu,

I bet they didn’t run “plenum” rated cables through the HVAC ducts.  They probably didn’t even run CL (in-wall) rated cables.

I went to best buy store in PR, see whats the deal and i saw a mini theater with av furniture and seatings they don’t run in wall rated cables, dint see neither do a nice neat cable termination in their wall that use datacomm wish you have to drill in case of concrete wall and place metal box, i think that the services here in PR will have to much develop due to challenges

I was told from a friend that he saw on the news about turning down the voltage from your TV. I own a 60” Sony Vega and a Sony Bravia 42”. He mentioned anything over 30” pulled a lot of voltage and Geek Squad could help me with this, true or not?

You can’t “turn” the voltage down on a TV. Televisions have power supplies that can handle variations in voltages, but these voltage swings aren’t healthy for any electronic devices. Voltage regulators/power conditioners/surge protectors help to correct these problems and Best Buy and Geek Squad offer these products.
Large CRT TVs and plasmas do draw more current than LCD TVs and because of the growing green trend many people are opting to buy LCDs because they can save electricity.
The only devices that I know that can consistently handle under voltages are tube-based guitar amps. Products like variacs attenuate the voltages to the amp. Eddie Van Halen created his “brown” sound by running a variac with his amps to create under voltages.

Robert Archer is dead on in his answer.  The news report on “turning down the voltage” was at best a misinterpretation of the need to scale back the brightness on a new set, or at worst, the sort of well meaning but completely fictitious nonsense put forward by a badly trained kid at a big box store.  If the latter, it would rival the advice I was given by a clerk when I was doing a secret shop that I would have to have the plasma in my set “recharged” every year or so, much like a fire extinguisher.  I still laugh about that, years later.