[Tegger[_3_]]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but it seemed logical to guess
that those interested in electronics repair may have the answer I seek.

I am looking for a 19" to 21" 4:3 aspect-ratio flat-screen television (not
a monitor). Size isn't an issue, instead it's the aspect ratio.

This is for my 86-year-old mother, who has a dying CRT TV and does not like
the new wide-screen format. She wants exactly what she has right now: a
19" "normal-looking" television..

I am abundantly aware that no retailer currently has such a thing in stock,
new. I can't find anything on the Craigslist-type sites in my area, or at
TV repair places in my area. I keep getting told to look online, but that's
not working either.

Does anyone know of an alternate source?

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Tegger

[Tegger[_3_]]

Tegger wrote in
:

Size isn't an issue, instead it's the aspect ratio.


To clarify: I meant that size isn't an issue to the extent that 19"
televisions are available everywhere; they're just all wide-screen, which
is not acceptable to my mother..



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Tegger

[William Sommerwerck]

Where are you located?

I have a 36" Sony WEGA flat-face CRT receiver I'd be willing to swap for a
decent 40" LCD replacement.

[Leif Neland]

Tegger formulerede spørgsmålet:
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but it seemed logical to guess
that those interested in electronics repair may have the answer I seek.

I am looking for a 19" to 21" 4:3 aspect-ratio flat-screen television (not
a monitor). Size isn't an issue, instead it's the aspect ratio.

This is for my 86-year-old mother, who has a dying CRT TV and does not like
the new wide-screen format. She wants exactly what she has right now: a
19" "normal-looking" television..

Take a big (cardbox) box, cut a hole in aspect ratio 4:3, paint it to
look like the TV she bought in 1955 and put a modern TV inside.

Does she want to squash the picture together, miss the left and right
part, or letterbox-format with bars at the top or bottom.

Or tell her to grow up and accept the fact that one cannot always get
what one likes.

Leif

--
Husk kørelys bagpå, hvis din bilfabrikant har taget den idiotiske
beslutning at undlade det.

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Tegger:

I am looking for a 19" to 21" 4:3 aspect-ratio flat-screen television (not
a monitor). Size isn't an issue, instead it's the aspect ratio.

This is for my 86-year-old mother, who has a dying CRT TV and does not like
the new wide-screen format. She wants exactly what she has right now: a
19" "normal-looking" television..

How about an analog TV with an add-on digital tuner?

I've got a Sharp Aquos sitting right next to me and a couple of digital
tuners in the closet somewhere.

Philadelphia PA area... USA.
--
Pete Cresswell

[whit3rd]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:39:06 AM UTC-7, Tegger wrote:

I am looking for a 19" to 21" 4:3 aspect-ratio flat-screen television (not
a monitor). Size isn't an issue, instead it's the aspect ratio.

If you REALLY want this, just get a 4:3 monitor that has DVI input, and
connect to a digital component tuner (some DVD recorders have such
a tuner builtin, and there are some cable boxes that do this). I'm
guessing you want an ATSC tuner (US broadcast), and will require
a HDMI to DVI cable to wire it up. Audio is a separate issue, as is
the programming of a suitable remote control.

Typically, you get to choose letterbox or cropped or scaled screen
when this kind of lash-up is done. Customer choice...

[Klaatu]

"Tegger" wrote in message
...
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but it seemed logical to guess
that those interested in electronics repair may have the answer I seek.

I am looking for a 19" to 21" 4:3 aspect-ratio flat-screen television (not
a monitor). Size isn't an issue, instead it's the aspect ratio.

This is for my 86-year-old mother, who has a dying CRT TV and does not
like
the new wide-screen format. She wants exactly what she has right now: a
19" "normal-looking" television..

I am abundantly aware that no retailer currently has such a thing in
stock,
new. I can't find anything on the Craigslist-type sites in my area, or at
TV repair places in my area. I keep getting told to look online, but
that's
not working either.

Does anyone know of an alternate source?

--
Tegger


You didn't say what country you were in, but Goodwill, Salvation Army
stores, pawn shops all have a BUNCH of used TVs for sale cheap.

[micky]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:25:56 -0500, "Klaatu"
wrote:

"Tegger" wrote in message
...
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but it seemed logical to guess
that those interested in electronics repair may have the answer I seek.

I am looking for a 19" to 21" 4:3 aspect-ratio flat-screen television (not
a monitor). Size isn't an issue, instead it's the aspect ratio.

This is for my 86-year-old mother, who has a dying CRT TV and does not
like
the new wide-screen format. She wants exactly what she has right now: a
19" "normal-looking" television..

I am abundantly aware that no retailer currently has such a thing in
stock,
new. I can't find anything on the Craigslist-type sites in my area, or at
TV repair places in my area. I keep getting told to look online, but
that's
not working either.

Does anyone know of an alternate source?

--
Tegger


You didn't say what country you were in, but Goodwill, Salvation Army
stores, pawn shops all have a BUNCH of used TVs for sale cheap.

Yes, plus maybe better yet, Freecycle.org has frequent such tv's that
people want to give away, and usually they work fine. It's just that
they bought a newer tv. Freecycle takes occasional requests too, so
that someone who is thinking about getting rid of something,
esepcially to someone who actually wants it, will sometimes reply with
just what the person wants.

In and around Baltimore, there are now a half-dozen groups of
Freecycle. I'm subscribed to 4, but 90% of the activity takes place
in one of them that has half the membership of two of the others. I
don't get it. We're not talking about the whole population but only
those who joined Freecycle.

BTW, do you mean flat screen or thin screen? Late model CRTs were
almost all flat screen, but they stilll had a deep cathode ray tube
behind them, 16" more or less. Thin screen means LED or LCD or plasma
or something, just a couple inches thick. I have a computer
monitor, found it out front of my house in a neighbor's trash waiting
for the garbage man, that has the aspect ratio you want, 14" screen,
and they must have made tvs like that too, so if that's what you want,
you have to say "thin screen".