Hi, we have a 27-inch Sanyo TV that's a year-and-a-half old. Not HDTV or LCD or plasma or anything, just a plain old tube TV, it's our third straight Sanyo TV, we've had good luck with 'em in the past and the price was right. We left the house for a while today and left the TV on ... we normally do that for security reasons so that folks coming around will hear a TV and think someone is at home. It was working fine when we left. When we came home, it was not working fine. I would say we're getting probably a six-inch strip of picture, that's measured vertically, horizontally it stretches all the way across the screen, a bit closer to the top of the screen than the bottom. What we are seeing is probably the top six inches of what would be the normal picture, a bit distorted but still recognizable as such.
Does anyone here have a clue what might be going on with this, and how big a fix it would be? I know this is the perfect time to upgrade to a more modern TV, but with Christmas around the corner that would be an "ouch," plus we are limited at least for the time being as to what size of TV we can accomodate in our living room, and aren't really inclined to go to the trouble of changing that at the moment. We have an old fashioned entertainment center, where the TV sits inside the cabinet, unlike the newer ones where you sit the TV with its pedestal on the top, and this Sanyo, at about 26.5 inches wide, is absolutely the widest unit we can get into that space, and we're not interested in downsizing to a 19-inch widescreen that would be about like a computer monitor. There is a similar Sanyo 27-inch TV available now, only it's 30.5 inches wide and it just ain't gonna work. At the same time, however, if it's going to be a $100 or $200 fix for this TV, then you have to consider whether it's worth doing that, since the unit itself didn't cost all that much.
Thanks in advance for any help.