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Not vintage but I think the absolute worst are the newer Philips tvs some of them still branded Magnavox.Just had a 32" in only a year old with a bad flyback.At least they did one thing right.The flyback was putting an excessive amount of voltage on the ABL line due to the shorted internal rectifiers but they had a protection device rated at 35 volts on that line to ground.It is similar to the line device in some tvs that usually fails shorted.Otherwise this voltage would have went directly into the jungle(tv on a chip) ic and fried it.On this particular set it is a surface mount device with lots of pins.No picnic to change.The flyback was really cheap.Less than $20 bucks which was surprisinng for an OEM flyback but the whole set is made cheap.The master G2 adjustment is critical on this set as these sets shutdown if it's not right.What a pain turning it back on again til you get it right.IMO the picture was crap on this set as it was lacking in contrast and sharpness.The color tracked very poorly from channel to channel and just a crappy picture.But this is normal for these sets as I've seen several.Had a Walmart special Sanyo sitting beside it and the Sanyo blew the Magnavox away.What junk!
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