Sony TV help

[RyaNtheSlayA]

What a waste of a nice CRT if you had just taken the time to do things right!

[vash23n]

yeah I am trying the power on and off with a space in between thing.

I think you misunderstood, maybe not. You'd need to put a CRT monitor face to face with the TV on and turn the monitor on and off or activate the monitor degauss. Unless of course the TV has a degauss hidden in the menus somewhere, but a lot less likely than CRT monitors.

Nah, I tried that too. Not with a TV that has a manual degaussing feature though because I don't have one. I held my other TV up to it, face to face, and did the on and off thing for a while... on for a minute, off for 20 minutes, on for a minute and so on. No luck. I am wondering if it were possible for something to have been knocked loose inside since it had been thrown into a dumpster. The dumpster was full so it didn't have far to fall, but it was on its side and looked like it had been rolled around a bit.

[vash23n]

What a waste of a nice CRT if you had just taken the time to do things right!

Hey I am always looking to sell! It is still in my apartment at the moment. I am wondering if anyone has any other ideas other than those listed or if anyone knows how effective degaussing wands are? Is it possible that this is a problem that cannot be fixed? Like is this a symptom, not only of TVs needing degaussing, but also of something worse? If discoloration on the side of the TV is something that is fixable ALWAYS I may hold on to it until I can afford a degaussing wand.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

What a waste of a nice CRT if you had just taken the time to do things right!

Hey I am always looking to sell! It is still in my apartment at the moment. I am wondering if anyone has any other ideas other than those listed or if anyone knows how effective degaussing wands are? Is it possible that this is a problem that cannot be fixed? Like is this a symptom, not only of TVs needing degaussing, but also of something worse? If discoloration on the side of the TV is something that is fixable ALWAYS I may hold on to it until I can afford a degaussing wand.

It would honestly be cheaper to just try a TV repair shop.

[fastbilly1]

The maximum you'll ever spend to repair a CRT right now is $100 guaranteed, and that's only for major problems

Man I wish I knew your shop when I had to get rid of the 36inch 4:3 HD CRT about 6 months ago. My local repair shop said it would cost $1600 to repair it. Might be getting a 32inch version of the same tv in the near future though.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

The maximum you'll ever spend to repair a CRT right now is $100 guaranteed, and that's only for major problems

Man I wish I knew your shop when I had to get rid of the 36inch 4:3 HD CRT about 6 months ago. My local repair shop said it would cost $1600 to repair it. Might be getting a 32inch version of the same tv in the near future though.

Seriously?

Was it a projection or direct view set?

[fastbilly1]

Direct view. A Sony 36xbr200 to be specific.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Direct view. A Sony 36xbr200 to be specific.

After doing some research on the model of TV you mentioned it may be the fact that the set retailed for $2,500 new and used hybridized technology different from other CRT TV's as it was a video monitor not a straight TV set.

[fastbilly1]

Well aware of that. But for all intensive purposes it was a TV set, I mean we bought it at Sears.

[MrPopo]

Well, I think what Modman means is that because it's not just a straight TV set it's more expensive to repair.