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« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2014, 12:09:59 PM »
Just finally had my 7 year old HEB house brand tv piss me off. Black spot in middle that persists.

Replaced her today with a relatively inexpensive sharp 50 inch LED
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« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2014, 08:06:14 AM »
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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2014, 10:12:51 AM »
Read a book.

When I was your age, TV was called "books"   =D
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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2014, 10:20:40 AM »
When I was your age, TV was called "books"   =D

When you were his age, books were called "stone tablets". :P
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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2014, 10:34:12 AM »
When you were his age, books were called "stone tablets". :P

We sat around the fire gnawing mastodon bones and telling stories  :lol:
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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #30 on: February 21, 2014, 10:13:29 PM »
I saw a 32 inch crt sony for 35 bucks today
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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #31 on: February 21, 2014, 10:17:57 PM »
I saw a 32 inch crt sony for 35 bucks today

Was it for sale for $35 or was that what they were offering to pay for you to haul it away? Because I'm not sure that'd be enough.  :laugh:
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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #32 on: February 22, 2014, 10:14:13 AM »
Just finally had my 7 year old HEB house brand tv piss me off. Black spot in middle that persists.

Replaced her today with a relatively inexpensive sharp 50 inch LED

Try demagnetizing the screen.  Many color CRTs have/had demag circuits ("degaussers") in them, but not all.

That can happen when kids or experimentally-minded 70yos bring magnets to the screen to watch the colors shift when the magnet bends the electron beams.  Leaves the iron-based color matrix screen with a bazillion holes in it (the "shadow mask") right behind the phosphor layer magnetized in spots and throws the beams off permaninkly at those locales.  

So the electron beams hit the iron-based screen (shadow mask) and are barely able to hit the phosphors.  (This generates soft x-rays, by the way.)  This results in possible dark spots or spots where the colors are off --as in if the now-bent "green" electron beam hits the red phosphors.

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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #33 on: February 22, 2014, 11:24:08 AM »
You want to pick it up and carry it out of my basement, I have the 32" Samsung CRT tv that I got after my marriage broke up. Still works like a champ. It just weighs a million pounds.
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« Reply #34 on: February 22, 2014, 12:47:46 PM »
I have a couple of 26" Magnavox TVs from the 80's that still work perfectly. Free to the first person who hauls them away!
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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #35 on: February 23, 2014, 12:41:12 AM »
Your 32" sets will not fit in that wooden box in the living room.

Anyway, I managed to get the universal remote to work with the television that had no power button. Crisis averted.
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« Reply #36 on: February 23, 2014, 08:17:38 AM »
Remotes (and other carbon-button-type switches) can be repaired with that rear-window defroster-conductor repair paint.

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Re: Broke TV, help?
« Reply #37 on: February 23, 2014, 09:49:59 AM »
Make it fit...

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