Widescreen TV BROKE!

jdogg4

jdogg4

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Ya so saturday morning the 23rd start of my X-mas vacation I'm watching TV and it's perfect picture. I get up to go grab my shoes and come back and the red (rear projection tv 47") is all messed up and hard to look at the color is all out of wack now and the red is stretched up like. What a crappy way to start almost two weeks of time off. I had a warranty on this thing and it was fixed some time ago. I asked for an extended warranty but they didn't offer one for it. Anyone ever delt with repair cost on these things and or any repair guys up north that are good to deal with.

I know this sounds lame but watching hockey on a reg 35" TV SUCKS!
 
Please...allow me....

















SLAP! Quitchur whining!!!
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...darn yungins don't know how to read a freakin' book!!!
Sheesh!

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91 Jeep Project said:
A 35", man, that is just horrible. How awful for you. I mean, I just couldn't live with anything less than a 46". How will you get out of bed in the morning............................:rolleyes:

:D
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Well that 35" is my bedroom TV so now at night because Iput that in the living room I have nothing to watch the news with before I go to bed. Well that and the QVC. hahahaa

It's not that fancy of a tv it's old as hell takes about 15 to 20 min to warm up before it starts to work other wise I just get sound and no picture just fuzz.

I read all the time. (while I'm in the bathroom)

I'm not that young but thanks for thinking that. What little hair I have left is turning gray already.
 
X3 but I did work in a TV repair shop when I was in DeVry for electronics so this is what I would do: Take off the back cover and reseat all conections. If that won't fix it then try lightly thumping on various components and see if anything changes. You never know, you may find a dirty conection or a cold solder joint on a board. You may also find out a thump on a board that changed the picture to be cheap to order and replace youself. You will most likely wind up with a new TV but we troublshot and fixed a lot of sets this way and you have nothing to loose.
 
scottmcneal said:
How old is your TV? Over 7, buy a new one
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the 35" is like 12 to 15 years old and the 47" is 5 years old.

best buy has some 24 month no intrest things going on, but we gotta pay off the jeep first.
 
the red is messed up how?

a rear projection TV can do a couple things, one of the color guns can quit, so instead of RGB you'd have RG or RB so if everything looks red I'd guess this happened. A new color gun is probably $300.

THey can go out of convergence, so everything has a weird colored outline, this can usually be adjusted through the menu with your remote but the convergence board can go bad too... Reseatting the convergence board like stump said can help. I had one that the red gun liked to jump around and wouldn't stay in convergence, reseatting that board every year or so helped.
 
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The red is way out of convergence but only on the left hand side of the tv it's about half way up the screen so it pulls a double image of red only then the normal spot of the other two colors.
I ran the self convergance and re-alingment function on the tv and got nothing out of it.
I took the pannel off the back last night and there was alot of dust so with an air can and my vacume I did dust clean up check on it and nothing seams loose or out of place. I checked all the quick connection plugs I could.
 
I can't remember ever being into a rear projection TV. I quite the biz in 1984. But a regular TV uses the magnetic coil that surounds the tube yoke to guide the beams of RGB. The coils would be glued to the tube and break loose and they also had all kinds of plastic parts to adjust the coil height ,debth or whatever they did. I'd look for a similar type of beam steering coil assembly on a projection and poke around.
 
Stang5lgt said:
X2
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That explains why you actually took the time to count how many pages were not saturated with Toyotas. :D
 
Stumpalump said:
I can't remember ever being into a rear projection TV. I quite the biz in 1984. But a regular TV uses the magnetic coil that surounds the tube yoke to guide the beams of RGB. The coils would be glued to the tube and break loose and they also had all kinds of plastic parts to adjust the coil height ,debth or whatever they did. I'd look for a similar type of beam steering coil assembly on a projection and poke around.
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I didn't want to poke around much. I don't have a good track record with electical stuff and saw all kinds of warning things about radiation? and electical shock so I called off the hunt at that point. I just got a # of a repair shop up north here that I guess does good work. I just called and left a message.
 
Convergence problems on newer sets can be complex, and sometimes the color you think is missconverged, is the normal one and the other two are off ;)
Assuming the set took no physical damage to the cabinet, mirror, or screens and all that is aligned...

The solution could be as simple as replacing an offending convergence IC, or it could be a corrupted convergence generator.

Either way, if you don't know what your doing, have them come out and take a look at it. If they can't fix it in the field, they'll pull the set or maybe just the chassis, and fix it back at the shop.

There are certain brands and models from that time that I would automaticaly replace if I had the option. Most anything by RCA or <shudder> Apex would be on the top of of the list.

Anything that is not already HD; that is to say that it has a digital tuner and is is capable of displaying a HD picture, would also be high on my list. Feb 2009 is the shutdown date for analog broadcast TV, so if you presently do not have a converter box, you will either need to purchase one, or buy a set already equipped with a digital tuner to recieve over the air broadcasts.
That applys to over the air broadcasts only. Providers like satelite and cable already use a converter box from digital to analog format.

Ron
 
I talked to two different TV guys last Friday and they don’t do field work, so I would have to load up the TV and take it to them. PITA right there. He said 50 bucks when I drop it off and then no more than 300 bucks when I come to pick it up and he could get it working again. I had a bunch of work stuff going on so I didn’t get to ask them everything I wanted to, so I need to call them back again.
We had a talk about the tv this weekend if we want to fix it or not. Sometimes I just don’t get how the female brain works. One min she wants to get it fixed for the 350 bucks or so, and then the next min she is talking about getting a new flat panel that’s bigger, yet she said our 47” was too big for our living room? It’s a love hate relationship we have going on. LOL! So if nothing else 350 to get it up and going again tell the jeep is paid off in 6 months then were going to talk about a newer flat panel. We have a big unfinished basement that we want to put two bedrooms a full bathroom and then in the big main section of the basement put a family/movie room down there. Get a new poker table and bar setup down there so Jess can have her “NICE” living room up there and the movie party room in the basement.

So I gotta call around again today and talk to a few other shops and see what they say. The last guy that worked on my TV was a P00P D!ck and I had to hound him for over 2 months to get my TV back up and going. Well that and outside of verbally threatening him to get my parts back and working. Now a year later it’s having problems. Different than the first issue. I asked these two other guys about him and one didn’t know him and the other said pretty much all the same problems I had with him.
 
Last New Years my exactly One year and one month old Sony 60 incher went out. (one month out of warranty)

Had to have a guy come look at it because it was too big to move. $9.00 part. Cost me almost $300.00 to have fixed.
 
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