I just did thw world a service!

[radiotvnut]

This morning, a lady gave me a 2006 SPC 25" Magnavox TV/VCR/DVD combo. Of course, this garbage was made by Funai. Upon examination, I discovered that the VCR mechanism was screwed up and the set would fire up long enough for the screen to light before it would shut off. I've ran into this issue in the past and some of these could be faked into staying on. Unfortunately, this one wasn't one of them. Or, maybe I didn't try hard enough. Every time I'd try to fake this one into staying on, it would still shut off about 2-3 seconds after the screen lit up. IMHO, they designed these sets this way to make sure that when the VCR mechanism malunctioned, the whole unit would then be useless. My original goal was to make the TV stay on so I could sell it just for the TV. Since things didn't work out that way, I opened the door to my shop and slung the TV, as hard as I could, on the trash pile. Now, it won't come on at all and it will give my junk man something to sell at the scrap yard. Needless to say, I don't think much of anything made by funai and it don't take much to get me PO'ed enough to smash one.

Now that this excitement is over, let me pull out a real TV out of the stack I just brought home and get it working.