Not being a CRT repair person I can't tell you how to fix it, but the "gone supernova", aka brightline across the middle is caused by a fault in the power supply for some aspect of it. The best you can do is turn it off or literately hit it to make it come back. It's apparently a really cheap repair if you are very confident in repairing stuff like this, but I can't really say how to do it. Suffice it to say, I've NEVER had a CRT do that to me, but I've had people with TV's have that happen to them. I've also taken apart CRT's before and was pretty much told point blank NOT TO ever do that because of the x-ray emissions. One of those "if I can't feel it, it ain't harming me" things.
You can get new LCD panels for like 140$ CAD. http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=12&CMP=ILC-FPM-LCD It's silly, but one of the really common things about equipment that burns out quickly is that they tend to not be name brand (sony/toshiba/viewsonic/etc) but rather cheap korean/chinese brands. How to tell? If you never heard of it before, it's probably because they went bankrupt and created a new company to do it again.
That's why I'm wary of Samsung/LG stuff, we all know the brand name, but LG only puts their name on things, they don't really make things, but LOTS of stuff put out under their brand names doesn't last very long.
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Date: 2007-05-29 03:32 am (UTC)You can get new LCD panels for like 140$ CAD. http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=12&CMP=ILC-FPM-LCD
It's silly, but one of the really common things about equipment that burns out quickly is that they tend to not be name brand (sony/toshiba/viewsonic/etc) but rather cheap korean/chinese brands. How to tell? If you never heard of it before, it's probably because they went bankrupt and created a new company to do it again.
That's why I'm wary of Samsung/LG stuff, we all know the brand name, but LG only puts their name on things, they don't really make things, but LOTS of stuff put out under their brand names doesn't last very long.