WTF is going on with the electronics in this house?

[DarkwingChuck]

Yep, looks like my boob tube gone and blew its servo matrix capacitor thingie... it don't work no more. For a little while now it's gone all spazzy when I turn it on but a good smack or two got it humming. I turned it off this morning to settle in and watch some Robin Hood on the computer (as my PS2 eats DVDs now) and when I went to turn the TV back on all I got was a thin line of light and color. All the smacking in the world didn't help it. But I can't complain too much. When you buy a 26" (or so) TV from a repair shop for $100 you're dang lucky to get 5 years of extensive use out of it.

But the question remains, what ever shall I do now? I could try getting it repaired, replace it with another cheap as dirt tube, or use this as an excuse to thrust my eyeballs into the fantabulous realm of HD technology. But I'm far too cheap for that. I could maybe get one of those low end HDTVs from QVC or somewhere else I can pay in sensible installements that don't involve financing it for 4 thousand months. Like so, for instance. So any advice, jeers, lotto numbers?

[Perversion]

Re: TV dead?... TV is dead.

My old Tv (27 inch Sylvania) did the exact same thing you mentioned...it's like this thin bright line going across the middle of the screen, but you can ALMOST see something, because when something happens on whatever you're watching, the line changes colors and stuff.

I got it fixed...it cost me about $80. I had bought the TV a year and a half prior for $150 as a demo model from my work. Now, I'm probably gonna end up giving the TV to my ex to use for the time being, now that I've got my HDTV.

[Seraph]

Re: TV dead?... TV is dead.

Whatever you do, DON'T buy a prima brand tv. They are new, cheap(27" $250), and suck huge ***LS! trust me, I know what I'm talking about.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: TV dead?... TV is dead.

Nobody trusts you.

[Perversion]

Re: TV dead?... TV is dead.

Yeah...look at your title, fer chrissake!

*directed towards the "superior" Canadian*

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: TV dead?... TV is dead.

Only cost $80 to fix? I might just do that then. I could still get an HDTV later or sooner and give this one to my mom. I think it's this house. TVs have been going nuts left and right around here.

The big floor model TV in the den for some reason can't be turned into a lot of channels with the buttons, it'll like jump from 12 to 34 or something. So you have to use a remote and a few weeks ago the remote we use for it stopped working, the little light just stayed on. Changing batteries, leaving the batteries out for a long time, leaving them in for a long time, nothing worked. And none of the other universal remotes we have would work with the TV. So my mom started using this old TV we hadn't used in a while and a couple weeks later than one crapped out. It just shows this kinda hourglass shaped area of light now. I think this place is haunted.

[Seraph]

Re: TV dead?... TV is dead.

Ouch guys........... ouch..........

[Perversion]

Re: TV dead?... TV is dead.

Yeah, when I first saw the title of this topic, I was gonna say, Wait, didn't you just make a topic about the new fall TV season? And post in it just yesterday or something? So why make a topic about how TV is dead? What damn show did you watch yesterday to make you do a 180???

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: WTF is going on with the electronics in this house?

I just got back from being out a couple hours. Turn on my computer and everything on the screen is tinted blue. None of the monitor menu settings seem to make a difference. I guess I'll try reinstalling the display drivers. But seriously why is every piece of electronics in my house going crazy?

[JPS]

Re: WTF is going on with the electronics in this house?

You being on the pav all the time with all this blue probably made the monitor forget there are other colors

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: WTF is going on with the electronics in this house?

just buy something new. you can pick up something half way decent for a couple hundred or so or even find a used one for supper cheap. no point getting an old tv you got at an elchepo repair shop repaired, it will just kick the bucket again.

then again i bought my beasty tube tv way the hell back in like 95 and its still functioning great (the remote was **** from the get go). i am damn proud of the tv too, was my first major purchase when i got my paper route. hell, even my mother didnt own a tv at the time (old one broke).