It's Christmas Eve, it's Saturday, the NFL has moved up the schedule so
most of the games are today, the nearest service center is 60 miles
away, TV won't fit in my car, no way I'll get a service guy out here
today, probably not until Tuesday at best, my wife is glaring at me.

She's not glaring at you because of the TV, it's because your whining
that you can't watch 10 hours of NFL on Christmas Eve in all it's big
screen glory. (Either that or it's that stupid Santa hat and elf
slippers you're wearing).

But it actually wouldn't matter what day this happened, there are too
many things that will cause late model Panasonics to shut down in
protect mode, and none of them are easy fixes. I've seen bad
deflection yokes, flyback transformers, shorted and open coupling caps
in the yoke circuit, loss of vertical deflection, etc. Even shorted
CRT drive ICs will cause this. You need someone who knows how to
methodically troubleshoot this TV properly. The good news is that the
inside of this model slides out of the cabinet for easier transport to
the repair facility (likely). Good luck and Merry Christmas.

John

BTW, you can watch 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TBS starting at
8pm......