1988 27 inch Sony Trinitron, rescued from the trash.

[MRX37]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

Sometimes, you have to draw the line especially if you are planning on selling the TV. When I was a kid; I would almost never give up on a TV. Now, there is virtually no decent resell market on used TV's and it's really not worth spending much time or money to fix one unless you plan to keep it.

Yeah. Especally with the 2009 switchover to digital coming closer. I sometimes find TV's that work fine, usually sitting next to an empty box that contained a HDTV inside it.

And fujifrontier: If I didn't have three other TV's that are as good or better then that one, yes I would have hooked a VCR to it and used the AV inputs. As it is, I have a 27 inch TV that has S-video and composite inputs, a working tuner, and audio outputs as well as functioning speakers. I have another TV with all those features, and it's a 36 inch TV. The Sony had speakers with rotted surrounds, no S video, and it was a HEAVY beast!

Believe me, I tried to save this one, but like radiotvnut said, sometimes you got to draw the line.