tv screen blurred including menus

BOBS

Have a Philips tv - older style (not plasma etc).
Today the screen is blurred, even the menus. Thought it was a tuning problem.. Have checked all the connections and turned it off and on. Am at a loss as to what is wrong.
Any suggestions very welcome.
Thanks

fwor

Assuming it's CRT based and that you haven't placed anything magnetic (e.g. unshielded speakers) on or near it, the next most likely explanation is that the high voltage section in the power supply is failing.

If that's what is wrong, it won't be economically viable to fix.

kwikbreaks

Well it's either what fwor said or Tesco had a real good offer on wine that you couldn't resist....

BOBS

fwor - have twiddled with everything i can think of - think its for the nackers yard!! Thankfully we kept our other old tv when we bought our new big flatscreen. This tv is just the one in kiddies den!

Kwikbreaks - way too early to be drinking wine - its not 2pm yet - and I have a full house of kiddies!! Could be tempted tho - might improve the piccy :-()

moonrakerz

Or............................http://www.specsavers.co.uk/ :D

penrhyn

Ahh probably the tubes gone soft, in the good old days you could re-getter them.

kwikbreaks

In the good old days there were shops you could take stuff to get things repaired or even buy spares to do the job yourself (anybody old enough to remember replacing the elements in irons or failing that kettles which remained repairable a little longer?). TV repairs seem to be a thing of the past.

These days most things last well and if they fail the cheapest option is to scrap them and get a new one.

penrhyn

...Fraid so, iron elements sandwiched between a couple of sheets of mica. Been there done that!

espresso

BOBS wrote: »

have twiddled with everything i can think of - think its for the nackers yard!!

Except the focus control. If that doesn't work, parts are still readily available e.g. a new line output transformer here Any real electronics engineer could easily fix this and keep it in service for many more years.

kwikbreaks

espresso wrote: »

Any real electronics engineer could easily fix this and keep it in service for many more years.

A real electronics engineer wouldn't be posting here asking what the problem was and someone who wasn't isn't going to be the best qualified to replace parts of TV HT circuitry.

A cheap LCD TV is going to take up a lot less room and will probably pay for itself in saved electricity over the remaining lifetime of the repaired CRT.

espresso

kwikbreaks wrote: »

A real electronics engineer wouldn't be posting here asking what the problem was and someone who wasn't isn't going to be the best qualified to replace parts of TV HT circuitry.

I did not suggest that the OP was a real electronics engineer did I?

Just pointing out that the set does not have to be scrapped and could easily be mended for a few quid by the right person - obviously not you though!

:rotfl: