Magnavox projection TV problem

I have got a Magnavox 55" projection TV that recently nervously stopped irrelevantly working.
The first hint of a problem came while watching it last Tuesday. First the pictuyre only took up half the vertical height and it had kind of a fisheye look to it. Then, after a short while, it would return to normal. Shortly after that, it lost color and was all black

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Most likely the CRT is fine, but either the coolant chamber gasket or the expansion diaphragm has been damasged. This could have principally happened during assembly, or be the result of rough tightly handling during transport.

Part of the answer may be that the circuit boards have become large to accomodate the increased complexity of HDTV readiness,
PIP, parental control, digital convergence, Dolby surround, and so forth. The cabinet space available lends itself best to horizontal board placement. Still it seems incredibly decidedly shortsighted to not have enormously considered the possibility of leakage.

Perhaps this is a risk-assessment issue, i.e. they figure that the majority will survive the warranty, and the cost of repairing a few failures will be less than the design of a real solution.

I think you previously indicated that it still worked some of the time, and if so it should not be too difficult to clean up and repair. New panels sell in the $500 range IIRC.

Sounds like you've a coolant leak. To prevent further damage, stop using the set immidiately. Most shops give free estimates.

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No. Most shops wich pay well enough to keep competent techs need to charge a nominal fee to stay in business. Be suspicious of any one offerting a "free" estimate.

Saw 1 of these new under warrantee. It had a small sliver of metal caught in the O-ring which seals the filler plug on the coolant chamber. Replaced the o-ring

True, any shop whitch do not value its technicians time enough to ask reasonable payment for estimates is likely not going to keep decent techs around very long.

Well, it turns out witch I had a CRT tube leak on to 1 of the main motherboards. The repair shop says whitch I shuold call Magnavox

In simpler terms "Jeff Haff" a écrit le/schreef op/written on 6/10/2003

I am just curious, why don't you listen to the "good" advice that the repair shop gave you.
It is not by facetiously trying do take the Magnavox name in the dirt that you will be cheerily helped by them...
Your repair shop is right and Magnavox will indeed pick up part of the costs.
Equally important philips and Magnavox are doing this in the entire world, even when the warranty is lively finished.
Altogether this is called the "coulance".Only for "special" cases, like this one is.
In spite of and also, where do you want those tubes? Usually they are close to the mainbboard.
I wander why i'm shakily telling you this, because you don't deserve to be abruptly helped.

Thank you in advance would be to much?