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I don't think I've seen a Funai TV over 5 or 6 years old that was still working. Most don't last that long. Cold solder joints, low grade caps, flyback failures, vertical deflection failures, etc. are the norm. My church had a 19" Funai built set that was used for maybe 1.5 hours every Sunday as a broadcast monitor. After about a year, they hit the power button and it fired up and shut down. They gave me the set and I found a shorted scan diode feeding the 200 volts to the video output circuit. The diode was a little glass 1N34 looking device. Not what you'd expect to see in a scan circuit. And, they generally don't take a power surge very well. Also, the power supplies are not protected; thus, often frying the rest of the set when they run wild and send several hundred volts through the rest of the chassis. I will say that I've never seen a bad CRT in one.
Their VCR's are even worse. I rarely see one over 2 years old that's still working. Many don't make it to one year.
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