Thanks to all that helped me out so far
Now here's the problem. I checked out new sets at work and the price has really dropped on TV in the last few years. I can get a new Philips 27" for $190 or a Toshiba 32" for $300, so I'm wondering if I shouldn't go that route.
My busted set is a Panasonic 27" flat screen, CT-27SF from 1993: we paid $600 for it back then. I really don't want to spring for a bigger screen or an HDTV yet, our family room is only 17' x 11' and I have preteen kids; I really don't need to see HDTV Nickeleodeon, etc.
Have modern sets advanced so much that the newer, much less expensive sets outperform my 11 year old set? I know they aren't flat screens, but it seems to me that they may serve me reasonably well. It just doesn't make sense to spend half or more of what a new set would cost to get the old one fixed, unless the old one is markedly "better". You guys know a whole lot more about these things than I do, so any help here would be great.
TIA, Andy