*Mods if this is in the wrong section, feel free to move it
*If anybody knows of a forum/messageboard dedicated to TV problems please, please let me know! I know theres forums for cameras (that deal with everything camera related. reviews, suggestions, advice, repair advice, etc) so I'm sure theres ones for TVs. I did a search and looked through dozens of results.. couldn't find any forums.



Hello everybody. Just recently, our projection (not LCD or Plasma) Sony, 62' bigscreen tv of 6 years messed up. The color is distorted and isn't normal. Also it has a double image. Example : Imagine 2 pieces of transparent paper, lay them over each other and move 1 paper slightly to the right.. it looks like that.

My parents are thinking about hiring someone and paying a few hundred of dollars to get it fixed but before they do.. I wanna know if it's just a minor problem? Is it something we can fix on our own? or do we need a tv-proffesionalist to fix it? If so, whats a good reasonable price? your help would be greatly appreciated. We are dying here without TV, heh. honestly, it would be so much if someone had the answers

thank you

Typical convergence circuit failure. Search this forum for "convergence". Repair will be $300-$400 parts & labor.

Hammer

I can concur from recent personal experience. My convergence chips (I guess that's what they're called...two were replaced) crapped out on my 4.5 year old Hitachi RP CRT. Price of repair was within that mentioned above. Most of the cost was labor (required soldering).