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Originally Posted by ARC Tech-109
I grew up in TV shops having them in the extended family, both had closed up by the mid-90's because the business dried up.
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Did they miss the renaissance or what?
In the mid 90s, I made a fortune servicing RPTVs and even tons of CRT TVs like the RCA CTC17X series as I was an ASC for Thomson. I was doing between 5-10 CTC 175/6/7s a day. I knew them so well I didn't even look at them before calling the customer to give them an estimate (I pretty much flat rated them based on screen size). Most were corrupt eeproms from bad grounds on the tuner shield, horiz output, and regulator output heatsinks. A few flys here and there but the flybacks were pretty cheap.
On rear projection TVs, most problems with Japanese brands were convergence related and I used to buy STK modules a hundred at a shot.
The RCA rear projectors didn't have convergence problems (all discrete components) but the guts were built in a crate - two brackets and two unplug harness and the box was out of the TV and in the truck in 5 minutes. Most RCA projection problems were smps rebuilds or HV splitter boxes.
Good days.
John