Late Model Toshiba, Trying to Fix

[waltchan]

Originally Posted by classictv80s

That is a sad thing to hear about your Toshiba. I really hope you can get it up and running. It has always been one of my favorite brands, as I have four Toshiba TVs made from 1979-2004. It was around 2004 that I believe they began to go downhill. That year, after buying another Toshiba TV/VHS combo, we got one of their "home theater" sound systems and everytime you would turn that piece of junk on, it would crank out these loud humming and buzzing noises for about a minute and a half - then the noises would quit. It was still under warranty when my mom one day couldn't stand it anymore and yanked it out of the living room and took it back to Sam's Club. They couldn't fix it, so they refunded the purchase price in full. I managed to keep the remote though. We haven't bought any new Toshiba products since. Come to think about it, the 2004 TV is the last TV we ever bought new.

The reason why Toshiba CRT TVs are now JUNK because the newer ones are made by Orion, not made by Toshiba. If you have never of Orion, it makes Broksonic, Emerson (90s), Memorex, Orion, and Sansui brands. All Toshiba TV/VCR combos are made by Orion, so bugs and quirks occur often. The downhill started in 2001, not 2004. 2001 was the first year that all Toshiba CRT sets under 27" (excluding 27" flat-screens) were made by Orion. By 2005, ALL Toshiba CRT TVs, regardless of what size and price, were made by Orion.

bgadow, the 32" Toshiba set you are working on is the first 32" set made by Orion for Toshiba, which is model 32AF45, I believe. Don't be too excited in fixing it because Orion-made Toshiba TVs always have inferior picture quality versus Toshiba-made ones.