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".