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I have a 27" Trinitron that has been working great for years (6-7yrs
old??).

I had an uncle who was really healthy and well for years, right up to
the moment he died.

Accept it. It's dying. The next 2-3 years the CRT will age a lot. It'll
be one thing after another as the components start to die. Get a new or
newer TV. have you seen what kind of CRT TV you can get nowadays for
not much money? Your eyes may be used to a well-aged tube, take a look
at some new ones in modern sets.

It is not the remote or batteries. I have tried two different Sony
remotes (one is brand new), and gobs of batteries, they all do exactly
the same thing. I have also held the remote directly up to the IR port
on the TV, and still no change.

New batteries?

I have only found one post about this exact symptom, and his solution
was to turn the batteries around in the remote. I have to say this will
do NOTHING since if you turn the batteries around they will not make
contact in the remote, and is the same as just taking the batteries out
(which has not fixed it. :-/ ).

If you rotate the batteries with your finger, that can clean up the
oxidation on the contacts just enough to get a tiny trickle of current
from nearly dead batteries. My Sony still had the original 1999
batteries that came with the remote, when i tossed it 3 weeks ago. I
rotated them about 3 years ago and they lasted the rest of the set's
life.