Broken Television
 

:cuss::cuss::cuss:


So I get up this morning to watch some tv before heading to class, and I come back from brushing my teeth to find the screen black and the power button blinking green. I tried to turn it off and on and unplugging it, but nothing has worked. I read somewhere about unplugging it for 4-6 hours and then trying it, so I am doing that right now but I am not holding my breath.

Long story short, I have a decision to make: do I spend the money to get my current tv fixed or should I just buy a new one? It sounds like it will be cheaper to get this fixed, but it will still cost a couple hundred bucks ($50-150 just to diagnose, then probably a couple hundred to fix it). I bought the RCA tv in the summer of 2002 and it's one of those huge fuggers that were built just before flat screens and such became popular (it's not a HDTV or LCD, just a standard one).

Any thoughts on what I should do? I thought about getting this one fixed, but the more I think about it it seems like maybe I should just spend a few hundred more to move into the digital age with an HDTV flat screen. However, I'm a broke grad school student so money is tight.

Antifreeze?

Go donate some fluids and then upgrade the tv. There's no reason to get the big old pieces fixed.

turn it into a coat rack, spend more time on grad school studies, so you can afford to have a movie theater in your mansion after you graduate

Dad? Is that you?

You'll know you're a redneck if you set your new TV on your old TV.

Buy a new one.....

no
and i have no more money for child support

Is this a tube TV? You say its huge. If its projection, you may have just blown the lamp, which should be replaceable. Not necessarily cheap( 100-$300), but replaceable.

I'd buy a new one personally. less hassle, and lcd tvs are getting much cheaper of late.

Have you tried using component inputs to the TV? If the tuner is flaky you can bypass it. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.

Yes, it's a huge tube tv that weighs probably 100 pounds and I'm not exaggerating.

If it is the lamp, which I think is probabaly a good bet based on the internet searching I've done, is it even worth it to get fixed? I could probably get a HDTV for around $500, no?

This fugger is heavy, it may just be my new coffee table. :)

Bad power supply. Scrap it.

buy a multimeter and fix it yourself!