Newspaper reporter working on story about old TVs, new TVs and planned obsolescence

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Originally Posted by fsjonsey

My father is one of those, IM NOT PUTTING MY MONEY INTO CRAP!!!!!111 kinda guys. So, he goes out and buys new crap...

Sad refrain...on a similar set.

A guy who is involved with my radio club told me last year that he heard of a school that was tossing a bunch of those 32" philips sets. He got one out of the trash, took it home and was not sure of the problem. I told him about the drive cap and the transistor it sometimes kills, and what to get to fix the set. He later told me I was right...and he had made a deal to get a BUNCH of those sets from the custodian of the school BEFORE they hit the dumpster, for fixing one or two for him. Last I heard, he had fixed a couple for the guy with the cap and maybe the transistor , and was now going to get a number of them to fix and "flip" for himself. Most likely ALL of them will have the same problem. It is unfortunate tha the school decided to trash them and buy new flat screen sets--when he could have fixed their old ones a lot cheaper, and MORE reliably than the disposable flat screen LCD sets!!