"Christopher Tidy" wrote in message
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My guess is that in the absence of spare parts, a modern TV will be impossible
to repair

MIGHT be impossible to repair...

, but an older TV may be repairable in the
hands of a knowledgeable person.

Possibly. I doubt if you can buy a new flyback coil, or even a CRT for a
70's television. Only a few types of tubes are manufactured these days, though
lots of old tubes are still on the market.

Information is perhaps the biggest problem. I know! This is the "information
age". But decades ago you could buy third-party service information for most
any consumer television or radio on the market. That information (Mostly Sam's
Photofacts) was in a standardized format and far superior to anything that the
manufacturers provided. I doubt if anything like that exists today. Further, I
believe that you will find that many manufacturers today consider their service
information proprietary, and don't even release it!

Vaughn