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Then it's not shorted. Have you checked other components in the power supply? I've heard of transistors shorting when a switch mode power supply fails.
There's only 3 transistors in my VCR's power supply and all three of them checked fine.
The only other component that measured questionable was the bridge rectifier (D1).