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Old 04-16-2008, 12:23 PM   Topic Starter
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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.
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:24 PM   #2
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:31 PM   #3
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Go donate some fluids and then upgrade the tv. There's no reason to get the big old pieces fixed.
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:34 PM   #4
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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
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:37 PM   #5
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:40 PM   #6
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:38 PM   #7
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:50 PM   #8
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This fugger is heavy, it may just be my new coffee table.
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:40 PM   #9
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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.
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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.
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?
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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?
If it's a tube (cathode ray) TV, there is no bulb.
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Does it look like this?


or like this?




Maybe you could post a model number?
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I'd buy a new one personally. less hassle, and lcd tvs are getting much cheaper of late.
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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.
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