This set is a 4:3 HDTV set 27".
It has been working perfectly for about a year though the HDTV picture with component input is all messed up, not sized correctly. Its too big for the screen and the sides arent straight.
For 4:3 viewing non HDTV channels using the other inputs which give it a full screen picture it was fine.
However I then moved the TV which is quite heavy into another room. Doing so seems to have damaged something. The immediate effect was that it constantly died ---- the picture and the power button which is lit would blink on and off . According to some posts this means call a repairperson. After repeatedly plugging it in and out it would work sometimes for a few min or seconds and then die and blink. Sometimes it would work for an hour. Another problem was that now the regular
4:3 picture not the HDTV mode --- was a bit too big for the screen , overscanning. The boundary of the picture was off the screen at the edges.
I took the back off and found two of the mounts , really plastic hooks on the main circuit board at the bottom the case were broken off. Additionally theres a thick wire thats taped around the back of the tube. At the bottom the tape had gotten loose and the wired was dangling resting on a coil on the circuit board.
I glued the mounts back on the circuit board and retaped the wire back on the TV tube away from the small coil. After that it seemed to work It worked for two days with no problems except that it was still overscanning -- too large. However today the person using it tells me it did start blinking again after dying. However after turning it on it has worked again for several hours last night.
Any clue to the cause? The cost? And where can I get the service code to fix the overscanning problem and also the mess of a HDTV picture which it came with?