1988 27 inch Sony Trinitron, rescued from the trash.

[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. I have several nice looking later model sets that no one wants. They all just sit in my building and take up space. Most people expect to get a 27" set for $25 or less and it must look new and have a 5 year warranty on it! And, you can forget about consoles & anything smaller than 25". People just don't want them anymore at any price. I still will mess with a new set; but, I usually will not fix it if it's going to cost much money. Thank goodness for junk boards.