'04 Sony KV30HS420 HD ready WEGA

[radiotvnut]

Brought home a bunch of silver crap from the TV shop and one piece of it may actually be worth looking in to, a Sony KV30HS420 HD ready WEGA. It was one of those deals where the owner said "junk it if it cost over $50". The tag says "intermittent bright screen and jiggling picture". When I fired it up, it had normal color for a few minutes; then, the colors went crazy and the horizontal width started varying from side to side. Even when I first fired it up, there was a wider black bar on one side of the screen than the other. Also, when I brought up the menu, I noticed a minor bit of bleeding around the letters. So, I hope the CRT is not going bad and I hope the other issues are simply bad solder connections. I would like to fix this and connect an HD tuner to the HDMI input, just to see how an HD CRT set looks. And, I may end up keeping it if I can find a place for it. I'll post a picture later.