There's a picture on the screen, but it has lines all across it.Sometimes it will be clear, but most of the time it has lines. I also have directv, but they've installed a new box. Is this my television going out? Thanks!

Hello
If the lines are there, and are across the screen at about an inch apart the whole screen from top to bottom, it is due to a slight increase in your TVs screen votage. It can be adjusted.
Open the back cover of your TV. There is an LOT [Line Output Transformer], can be seen directly soldered to the printed circuit boar of your TV. It is the largest component inside your TV, which have usually three wires emerging from it, and one thhick wire goes to the final anode of the picture tube, and will seem to be sticked to the top of the picture tube with the help of a rubber ******. Other two wires goes to the base card of the picture tube, a circuit board.
The said [LOT] has two controls integrated on it facing you as you open the TV. Among the top one is focus control, and the bottom one is screen control. Both of them are variable resistors, help to adjust focus and screen voltages respectively.
As set powered on, keeping the brightness, contrast and colour controls to its minimum, turn the screen control a little bit counterclockwise [not more, a little bit] will eleiminate the lines on your TV screen.
Take every precautions we have to, when working with an electrical equipment. Keep children away from you while you are working on it. Never allow them even to come beside you. Keep an adult beside you as a precautionary measure. Ok.
Wish you all sucess.