"Jamie" t wrote in message
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blanking wrote:

Hi there, I have a 12 year old sony tv that just suddenly started having
problems, first sign of trouble was that when you turned it on no picture
would come up, that includes osd, and then after about 10 seconds it
would automatically shut down to standby mode again, no matter how many
times I tried it just kept doing this until that is I gave the top of the
tv a whack at which point all was fine again for sometime but then most
of the picture would disappear and there would just be flickering strips
of picture near the top of the screen and then if I did not give it some
more whacks it would turn off again. Any ideas as to what this could be,
could it be as simple as dust or is this the last dying gasps of the
cathode ray tube, why would a whack help the tube to go again?
It has a Whack detector security option you turned on?


Don't you need to have Cinemax for this?




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