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Originally Posted by dr.ido
When you compare some of the later silver front flat screen sets to earlier sets the cost cutting is evident. They still perform well and produce a great picture when they have a good CRT. They just seem to have more than their fair share of (premature) CRT failures.
I have a 14" that I trash picked that has never needed anything. Up until I recently cut off the cable it was bedroom set that I often left on all night.
Back when I was still selling used CRT sets I found so many of the 21" and 27" versions with bad CRTs that I stopped picking them up.
Perhaps I should grab the next one I see dumped (now that it was probably dumped for reasons other than failure) and see if it's any good.
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We sold Sony & you are right. The pix was excelent but jugs were
going soft more than before. FBT's were going left & right &
every time a T-storm rolled through they came in with bad converter
transistors. Bad PC cons on the rise too.
Overall build quality was falling just like everyone else. Also we
started seeing 2 yr old sets with parts especially IC's coming back NLA !
The handwriting was on the wall, the end of TV repair as we knew it
73 Zeno
