The client: - 19 inch Goldstar - approx. 10 years old The setup: - cable comes out of wall, plugged into VCR - cable comes out of VCR, plugged into TV (VCR is only 3 years old and should be fine) The symptoms: - TV works fine for an hour or so, then inexplicably refuses to operate. Instead of getting snow, the signal reverts to one specific channel (Teletoon). Pushing the channel-up or down buttons do nothing (the channel number changes on the screen, but the channel itself remains on Teletoon). - if you turn the TV off for a while (several hours) and then turn it back on, it will usually work for a while before reverting to its screwed up state. - while in the screwed up state, it is impossible to watch movies or even play videogames. When you turn on the VCR or Playstation, nothing happens; it just stays on Teletoon. I am assuming the TV is dying and must be replaced. Or maybe I'll bring it down to the TV repair shop first. However, if someone reading this knows a lot about TVs and recognizes what is going on here, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks for reading. ------------------ All hail Fadeaway's Cyberfish -- your 2000-2001 BobFinn* Fantasy Basketball League Champions!
Or you can buy a TV tuner and watch tv on your PC and become a certified geek. ------------------ "Yes, it's true. Kelvin Cato DOES have plenty of heart. I think the downside of Hakeem's six weeks absence is the upside of Kelvin Cato's emergence as a power in the NBA." jscmedia - 12/2/99 7:13pm : the off-season is truly a great time to reflect.
There are advantages to being a certified geek. I can watch my 'stros/rockets games while i'm "working" on research papers or programming ------------------ Anyone need a C/C++/Win32/HTML/PHP/SQL/Java/Perl/x86 coder?
That used to work for me, when as an 11-yr-old, I would perform pugilistic surgery on my tiny black-and-white Hitachi set in order to restore its audio. Until the day when, instead of fixing the audio, I knocked out the picture too.
10 years old? Just break down and buy a new one. It would probably cost more to fix than it's worth. rH ------------------ join the club! Rockets Psychedelic Groove House Club on Yahoo!
It's a 19 inch TV, and its 10 years old? rH is right. It's junk, and it would cost you as much to fix it as it would be to buy a new one (as I found out a year ago when my old 20 inch set died). Repair shops ain't cheap. ------------------ I'm so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip that I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
If money is a problem, I've bought a couple of 19" TV's at a pawn shop for my kid's rooms. One cost $80, the other I got for $90. It's a good, cheap alternative to buying new. ------------------ It looks like a veteran can Be had.
Have you tried banging on the outer casing with your fist? It always works for me. ------------------
