Stupid TV, it’s doing “that thing” again.
It’s not a very interesting story, but I’ll tell it all the same. I have this TV, fairly small, but usable… got it something like 10 years ago, but it’s been fairly reliable, the picture still seems find to me, the tube doesn’t seem to be going in any obvious way, but there is an odd problem.
Every now and then, when I turn it off, it just doesn’t. See, normally, when I turn it off, I get a nice little click sound inside the TV, a reassuring clunk that tells me “Yes, it is indeed shutting off”, and the screen does a little dance of white in the middle of the screen for half a second, another notable indication of shut-off-edness.
Unfortunately, what it does when it doesn’t shut off, is I don’t get a clunk sound, and the screen just goes black for about 2 seconds, the sound is suspended, and then the picture comes back, and doesn’t respond to the remote control… sometimes, in the past, I’ve been able to hit power again, and then the sound comes back, but hitting it again just results in the same thing… so it’s like something inside isn’t disconnecting. The last time this happened is like a year ago, and even then, now, I’d say it’s only happened about 5 times, usually, I thought, when it was very humid and thought that had something to do with it, but I had just turned it on for 10 minutes, and it’s not humid, it’s nearly cold.
Whenever it happens, I just unplug the thing, leave it for a few hours, and it has come back fine after that, but still, wtf? With this, and cases of my VCR actually locking up when I hit stop sometimes, and actually getting confused as to whether a tape is actually in the machine or not….. maybe 10 years is good enough for the life of such heavily used appliances, and I should break down and buy something new…
Now all I need is money