TV repair
 

I have a Toshiba 32" that's 7 years old. It's getting darker as time passes.
I tried this for a living years ago, before I got hungry and quit.:D

Anyway I looked on back and see no adjustments. I can get a Sams photofact
for about 22 bucks. If I pull back and there's no adjustment, I'll be POed. I'm guessing that I'll have to swap a board out. Somewhere. But I guess the photofact will tell me that.

Guess what I'm asking, anyone have a clue? About the tv and what I'm trying to say.:bolt:
Hell maybe it's my light going out.

I have absolutely no idea what you just said

I do, but don't know the answer. :o

You could post at this place and ask. I had that dimming happen to a computer monitor. Ended up finding another so I never figured out what caused the dimming.

If you have a plasma you are done.

If you receive your signal over the air, all your TVs will be obsolete on February 17, 2009 anyway. That's the date analog TV stops broadcasting, in favor of the new digital TV.

CRT-style TVs are now cheap as hell because they are all going away soon.

Yeah, my son told me the same thing. This is why the cable company gave me a free converter box. Unfortunate for them I ordered satillite tv instead.

Ja, but will it really switch over? It has been pushed back before. If even 10% of the population doesn't have HD by then there will be a lot of angry people with a lot of time on their hands.

Seriously?!

Or am I too gullible this morning?

No, it's serious... they want everybody to switch to digital TV (which uses a different frequency space) so a) they can stop broadcasting on both frequencies and b) they can sell off the existing analog frequencies to well-heeled corporate interests. But as Jebediah says they've delayed it before--I think the original deadline was 2007 or something like that.

It's no joke. Turn off your sound and go to dtv.gov. (The site looks like it was done by a 13-year-old; your federal gummit at work.)

Obsolete is a little strong of a word... you will be able to buy converters to get the signal and watch it with an old TV.

Also if you are on cable or satellite these things do not matter to you, it's only over-the-air broadcast that will change.

They do if you own your own satellite receiver(s) and you have to run out and buy new ones.... or if the cable company jacks up its rental fees on your converter. (Now, why would they do that?)

If I have a roof-top antenna strapped to my chimmney, will that stop working well, since the bars will be spaced at the wrong wavelength?

I don't know, but I do know that unlike analog, either you get the signal and it's perfect, or you don't get it at all.

Does this mean, since I don't watch TV, and don't care to have any type of TV signal pumped into my home, that I can get a bigger TV, for cheap, to run as a monitor (as long as it has an S-Video) for my 5-Disc DVD changer? (And possible Nintendo Wii I might get soon?) :::measures cabinet:::