Sanyo AVM-3659G Problems

[dnpainting]

Hello,
New to this forum and i wanted to see if anyone could help diagnose some problems.

I am trying to repair this TV for my brother in law. He told me that his son had turned on the TV and the screen flashed and nothing else happened. The tv has been unplugged for a good 6 months, one month while I have had it. Before I even plugged it in I did some probing around and discovered that the HOT has shorted out. I removed the board and unsoldered it to be sure and it has gone out. I am going to start removing a leg from everything in the Horizontal circuit to test, caps, transistors, resistors and diodes. I also wanted to find out how I can test the FBT?

One final question: The Transistor that is bad is a 2SD1880, I was looking for a replacement and wanted to see if this is a good one to use.