| Trollheart |
01-01-2013 02:12 PM |
Sat down to watch TV and the bloody thing wouldn't come on. Well it would: I could hear the sound but no picture. Tried everything obvious (tightening then changing SCARTs, changing batteries in remote, checking all cables, confirming I wasn't suddenly in an alternate universe) then decided the damn thing had somehow died but retained the ability to produce sound. I don't know: it's an old (maybe 15/20 years old) machine, one of those bulky CRTs with a widescreen that, when I got it, was the biz, but now is close to a museum-piece, but I thought once they died it was the tube blowing and therefore nothing would happen, at all? But I still got sound.
Anyway, after agonising over it for some time I decided I had to replace it. Can't quite afford a new one, so hauled out the old set that used to be downstairs, another CRT, and then had a hell of a time lifting the original from my bedroom --- I swear it must weight forty kilos! --- then get the other one in and set it up. It's working now, but whereas before I had a 32 inch screen I now have only a 20 inch one. Takes some getting used to, I can tell you! Still, at least I HAVE a telly!
Might look round for one of those new-fangled flatscreens in the sales...
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