I have an older Toshiba 36 inch TV that has a shrinking picture. The bottom 4 inches of the screen is black and the top has about 20 white lines across it. It must weigh about 175 pounds so I'm not about to take it to a repair shop. Should I try to fix it or pitch it? (BTW: I've never opened a TV set in my life.)
Ok, first thing you should know is that whacking the TV sometimes did help. I used to be able to hit...
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Ok, first thing you should know is that whacking the TV sometimes did help. I used to be able to hit the tv to solve the problem (sometimes it would revert back and I would have to hit it again). Recently no amount of whacking fixes the problem and I just get a single bright horizontal line. Before, the image wouldn't always squish to a single line. Sometimes the image would squish about 50%, espcially the bottom half. When I could get the image to be almost normal, there was always some flickering in the bottom of the screen. Any ideas? I would like to poke around inside but I'm afraid of killing myself with the charged capacitors?
I have the exact same problem on my Toshiba CZ36T31. Hitting it brings back the picture but it doesn't always last.
Our tv popped off one day while watching it. Then I turned it back on and it was fine. A few days...
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Our tv popped off one day while watching it. Then I turned it back on and it was fine. A few days later it wouldn't turn on. After turning it on and off 20 times it came on. Sometimes it stays on other times it pops off a few times. Once the tv has been on for awhile it works perfectly and doesn't turn off. We love this tv and can't afford a new one right now. Any suggestions? Thank you.