Any TV repairmen in the house?

What's it mean when you turn on the TV (after its been off a while) and the picture is really distorted for about 2-5 seconds and then the TV shuts itself off. You turn it on again, the picture is distorted for about 5-10 seconds and it turns itself off again. I do that about 4 or 5 times with the picture getting a little better and it stays on a little longer each time. Then finally it stays on and the picture is fine.

I'll be pissed if my 3 year old TV dies.

Is it a tube, projection, plasma, lcd, or dlp?

Have you tried the good ole smack the fucker on the side trick?
I have an old 27" tube tv in the garage that the picture turns into a thin line after watching for awhile, give it a whack and it's good to go for another hour.

Sorry, I don't know shit about fixing tv's except for the smack it on the side trick.

What kind of tv? I'm guessing CRT.

No matter what it is going to need new parts, and you will
most likely find it isn't worth fixing.

If it looks zig zaggy it's probably the horizontal oscilator, and in some cases it will also whistle.

The only DIY fix is if the TV is in a dusty enviroment and
some dust has built up in the high voltage area it could
cause some arcing. It's possible that if you clean out the
dust it could fix it.

It's a CRT. I wouldn't think that it's collected enough dust since it's only a few years old...but I'll try cleaning it.

There's no whistle. Right after I turn it on...the picture is only about half the width of the screen and it's so distorted that you can only see colors...not make out a picture. After about the third time turning it on...the picture is finally about the full screen width and you can start to make out the picture, but it's still distorted.

I'm not going to resort to smackin' the TV...yet.

Rub your tallywacker on a power tube.Something will happen.

It does piss you off when this stuff only lasts 3 years. The good news is, tou can get a nice LCD pretty reasonably.

Cleaning it didn't help...

If it does die, I'm definitely going LCD or plasma for the next one. I think they've gotten cheap enough now. I'm a little pissed that I passed on the 50" Samsung DLP last winter.

IMHO- plasmas suck. They reflect light like a mirror, don't work well above sea level, can't be laid down for the ride home,don't last long, and finding someone to work on a gasseous mass is rough.Other than that....



Again-IMHO

I can't wait to see a commercially available Laser TV to go on sale. Then those LCDs and Plasmas will be real cheap.

I haven't really studied them that close. I just know my bro-in-law has a plasma and it's awesome.

The picture on a plasma is great but the damn things get as hot as a stove.
Go LCD or wait for the new laser.

DE is correct..

I bought a monitor from a computer store that offered a 3 year warranty on computers bought through them.. a week after I moved 800 miles away my monitor had the power button get stuck.. so it had to be unplugged when it I wanted to turn it off.. (lucky for it got stuck on and not off)
so anyways.. after about 6 months I finally get a change to visit the area I bought the monitor from they replace it with a new monitor.. I test it out for about 30 minutes before I left.. drove home.. the new monitor started making a high pitch humm.. so I called NEC.. they did the standard trouble shooting.. checked connections, reset to default. ect.. so anyways it still hummed.. So the the tech said to turn the brightness up and the contrast up, and open a soemthing white.. like note pad maximised on the screen.. after about 20 minutes of that smack the side of the monitor.. adjusted the brightness and contrast to a proper setting.. and sure enough it fixed the issue.. every now and then I had to refix it ( slap the side usually did the trick).. the fix could last for a few days, weeks.. anyways.. I found out a months later the monitor didn't like a particular resolution..

I have seen the Laser hi defs. They are incredible. I am holding out for one of those.

Do you think they'll actually be here anytime soon?

They will be like the Plasmas and LCDs and start at around 20 to 30 grand when released.

I have heard they will be here for Xmas of 07. That is not written in stone, but it was the target date when I saw one at a show.

If ya need something now an LCD is the best IMHO.

Waiting for laser will be like waiting for Thunder to grow nads,Corny to quit whining,DE to learn that new-fangled math,or Rocket to find the fountain of youth. You'll be dead first. Buy the lcd.

I knew it. It's getting worse. Now the picture will show up and it'll stay on...but the very right side of the screen stays real wavy and will dance around...moving in and out. It does that for about 5 minutes and then goes back to normal. I guess it's time for more internet searching...

No, it's time to search for a new TV.

That one's done - put a bullet in it and put it out of it's misery.

Get the credit card out and go buy a new one this weekend - some decent deals will be out there.

Nope...after about 3 hours of searching last night, I think it's time for me to get out my soldering gun. Seems I'm not the only one with this problem for tv's with that chassis number. I've got a capacitor to replace.

No no no, you tell the wife that your TV is screwed. You go out an buy a brand new HD widescreen. You then take your old TV out to the garage where you stumble across a fix later this Fall. Now you have a nice garage TV.

Never pass up a golden opportunity to purchase a new piece of electronics.

Nice. This one wouldn't last very long in my garage. Too much saw dust/dirt. I guess I'm just not ready to shell out $1500 for a new TV right now. I've got an anniversary trip to pay for in September.

Charge it!

See - DE's thinking just like me!

....wait a minute.... is that a bad thing??

Yes!



I've charged enough stuff in the last 12 months...including all the extra I spent during our Florida trip. I absolutely HATE credit card debt...but I've always got it. Every time I get them paid off, or close to it, something else gets put on them.

Nothing else (except maybe an anniversary gift ) goes on the plastic until Christmas. I already informed the wipe that next year's tax return goes toward the credit cards. (and possibly a new tv if I fry this one with the solder gun)