tv's

I don't know if there are such a thing, have you tried searching for it? Might depend on what's happened with it too. I had a tv from Sears that blew up one night, took me awhile but Sears gave me a new one.

i think they are made to last about a year now. i'm in need of 2 new ones right now. the big one in the bedroom is acting up and my daughter put a magnet on her's and when she removed it there is a big black rectangle where the magnet had been. so it's looking like tv's for christmas lol.

kim

As with anthing, it is Caveat Emptor.
What I do, and it has worked for a long time, I go to a place for a boob tube, get the store brand, or off brand, without frills. I get years out of them. I have an RCA 21" that Jenne has had for about 10yrs. No frills, just tube and I run the speakers from an home theater. Also a radio shack closeout Magnavox.
Tube was about 200$, Home theater 100$, 100$ less than a compareable single brand.
Works for me.

quick run down
paid 3200 bucks in Aug 2003 for a "samsung 43 DLP "
broke march 2004 "covered under warranty"
out of warranty Aug 2004
broke march 2005 got them to cover the 1200 bucks in parts cost me 375 for service
now broke again , after a 100 dollars for service fee and transport to TV shop
called samsung to b##CH and now they are covering all cost for the rest of the repair
have to love the power of a phone call

2 things i can't imagin, 1st paying that much money for a tv 2nd having it turned on all and i do mean all the time, wow where is the mute button?

robert

In most cases it's cheaper to get a new unit then it is to get it repaired.

A few years back a friend of mine gave us his old 14" TV so my son could use it to play video games on. Something happened to it. It would sometimes start snowing and the only way to get it to stop was to either hit it, or to put pressure on the side. A new TV at the time cost under $100. I thought "it can't cost too much to have fixed - Probably a loose wire or something that needs to be soldered". Sent Hubby over to the repair shop to have it fixed. They charged him $75 up front just for them to even look at it. A week goes by, and hubby went to go pick the TV up only to get the news "Sorry, we don't know what's wrong, we can't fix it". So we lost $75 and still had a broken TV.

So we decided to live with the problem, and live with pausing the games every 5 - 30 seconds just so we could hit the TV to get the picture back. Some time goes by and we started to get white lines across the top of the TV, and eventually those white lines turned to a faded upside down picture about 1/3 down the screen. We thought we'd try different repair shop, told them the problems and they said "no problem we can fit everything", and they charged us $50 just for them to look at it. A week goes by, and we get the same "Sorry we can't fix it".
we had already spent a total of $125 on this TV only to get it returned to us still broken.

So we thought we'd splurge for my son's B-day and got him a brand new JVC 20" I-Art . For the price we paid, it better last him well into college!

Degaussing is a simple procedure and does not even require a single screw to be removed from the set & it takes all of about 75 seconds to complete..

It is cheap cheap cheap at any REPUTABLE repair shop to JUST get the TV degaussed. We're talking $10-15.

The problem & it's cause have already been determined.

It is merely a residual magnetic field that needs to be "erased" for the picture to be restored. You just have to tell them ONLY to degauss it & ask for a flat rate on it. Most will do it for petty cash because it is so easy to do.

I worked in two reputable shops & one "not so" reputable one & I can tell you that the techs who bust their arss for the customer & don't charge enough are the ones you need to find because the a-holes across town who rip people off & make a bunch of money end up running them out of business eventually.

End rant
sorry about that, must have been some pent up rage there...

we still have the TV in storage actually. The mark name says "sears", but I'm guessing it's actually a GE.

We've tried those no name brand el-cheapo TV's, and always returned them within the first week. Mainly because the jacks gave up working, or because of the lack of Jacks (Staticy speakers, and an earphone Jack were also an issue).
We wanted a TV for exclusively for my son's game systems. With the I-Art he has now, he's able to attach all his systems to one set, and just push a button to set to the TV to play the system he wants. No more pulling out the TV, fiddle through a bunch of wires just to plug in another game system, only to have to pull it back out 5 minutes later to plug in another machine because he wants to play a different game which happens to be on another system. So far the TV is working great and no signs of it breaking down (we've had it since January 2005).

Kim, phone around to some local electronic repair shops and ask how much they charge for a "degauss" on your size of TV. It shouldn't be more that $10-$15 tops. All they do is wave an alternating electromagnetic coil around it and VIOLA!
That will take care of the residual magnetic distortion imprinted in the CRT.