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I'm new here and have an appreciation for vintage TV's but have no idea about repairing them aside from giving them a whack on the side  . Still have the old Philco and would love to see it work again. Maybe someday I'll meet someone who wants to mentor a clueless newbie
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The slap on the side often works because so many TV's develop poor solder joints all over the place. Combination of heavy use, poor manufacturing, and heating of the circuit board(s)
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Symphonic stuff in the day just ran and ran. Funai is one now that I wont touch. I always lose money when I try to fix them. Funai made a 13 inch color set for Emerson that was a real workhorse back in the 1980's. It was good looking too!
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I bought a van today that has a new Durabrand CD radio in the dash - don't know if Funai builds those too but it's the cheapest radio I've ever seen - there is no way to control the balance, fader or tone.
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I wanna say that Lennox Sound builds their audio stuff. Yeah, real top notch audio equipment.
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I wish some of these companies would change their name to a truthful one: Press't-Shit.
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My luck on Funai products hasn't been good. I like to think I'm somewhat "with it" on vintage stuff, but have no clue as to who owns/makes what in modern gear.
In 2004 I bought 2 Toshiba VCR/DVD combo's. The price wasn't that cheap and I thought I was getting something that might last longer than the "cheapies". The first one dies within the year, the second one got glitchy and I quit using it, and ended up selling that. Come to find out.. Funai made products. Around the same time someone gave me a non working Magnavox 13" TV/DVD combo. It had a dead short, so I thought I was "crafty" by returning it to a chain store for another one. That one was dead out of the box. Returned it, got another, and the picture was so bad, I returned it and got a store credit. Again.. Funai made product. On another note, in 2004, I bought a higher end 24" Flat screen Toshiba TV. I found out it has an Orion CRT, and most likely made by Orion. I will have to say, it still works and has a fantastic picture. That set was one I exchanged for a Sony Wega, that I bought. That set had too dark of a picture and was glitchy within a week. I read online of all the issues Sony was having with the Wega line, and made the store give me a Toshiba as those had the same features, and was within the price range. I also have a 32" JVC I'Art (2003 vintage) so hopefully that is a full JVC product. Fantastic picture, but that one is developing problems as well. If it's humid and you first turn it on, the picture is out of focus for a few seconds before it locks in. I dought ANY of the last gasp CRT sets of that era were made that well.
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I will never consider Funai as the worst of the worst manufacturer. Why don't you try the Chinese brands, like Haier, Apex, Polaroid, Coby, Sansean, and use the stopwatch?
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