I have a Sony KV-32S40, which I purchased in December of 1998. I have not experienced any problems with it until today. I turned the TV on today and everything was working fine as usual. After about 3-5 minutes the screen turned black but I still had audio. I turned the TV off for a couple of minutes and turned it back on. It appeared to be working fine until about 5 minutes later it did the same thing. The screen just turned black. I turned the channels to make sure that it wasn't the channel and turned on a different TV in the house to make sure that it wasn't the cable. I let the TV set all day before I tried turning it on again. After about a minute, the screen started getting a bunch of lines in it and the picture appeared to be shrinking from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen. Then the screen went black again. I again let the TV set for a little while and tried it again. Now I don't even get a picture when the TV comes on. I still have audio and can even switch channels, but there is no picture. The red light on the front of the TV that says "Standby/Timer" just keeps flashing. I didn't hear any noises when the picture was going out. I talked to a repair shop today and they said that the picture tube is probably bad and that it would cost more to fix it than the TV is worth. I feel that I am a technical person but I have never worked on a TV before. Does anyone know what this sounds like or have any suggestions?
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20 years ago