What's the opposite of pin-cushioning; what causes second problem?

Barrel distortion. For the obvious reason... There may be a 'pin amp' or 'pincushion' marked control that you can tweak (but this would be a remove-the-case-back kind of job).

That's usually where 'ghosting' shows up; there's a strong timing signal on analog TV just to the left of the picture, and if you have a delayed ghost of the timing signal, there will be a (usually dark) bar in that position. Ghosting has this symptom ONLY on analog transmissions, though. Is your set on analog cable?

A second possibility is that the 'screen' adjustment is out of whack (this usually lowers the contrast on the full display); if you have a gray-bars test pattern (some DVDs come with such on 'em) it will fail to have a good 'black' until the screen is readjusted. Screen readjust is very commonly required with age, and either an insulated screwdriver into the marked hole, or a remove-the-back-and-tweak adjustment is likely to be available.

In the UK, we always called it "barrel distortion"

What we used to call "striations" maybe ? Caused by velocity modulation of the scanning beam, and was often due to the damping resistor across the H - linearity coil either burning out, or running so hot that it crystalised its solder joints. Without this resistor in place and working, the lin coil 'rings' a couple of times after the 'shock' of flyback, and produces a couple of vertical lines similar to what you describe, in about that sort of position.

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Thanks. I'll look if I ever take the back off this one.

Well, no it's not on analog cable but it's on analog output from the DVDR with OTA reception. Is one different from the other?

No my Philips DVDR with harddrive has a lot of good features, but it's missing a lot of features also.

I do have a dot generator in the basement, but i'll never get around to this. Like I said, I just wanted to know how it could happen.

Thanks

And here to it seems. Now I can tell all my friends I have barrel distortion. They may not care, but I will enjoy saying it. At least to one or two people.

Even when there is oonly two vertical lines? Oh, yeah, that's exactly what you say below.

That sounds right. Ringing, and right after it gets zapped back to the left side.

This is close that it's probably enough to fix it. And I might be able to find the H-linearity coil without buying an expensive set of notes, so maybe if this gets worse, I'll save the tv instead of throwing it away.

Do you want at the proper value for the damping resistor? If it's been running hot, I probably can't tell.

Both terms are used in photography. Zoom lenses tend to have one form of distortion at the long end, the other at the short end.