[This followup was posted to sci.electronics.repair and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]

In article ,
says...
Does cold weather affect television sets or monitors? It was a really
cold day yesterday and my TV picture turned into a rolled up one when
I turned it on and now it won't go back! It's weird looking. It's
like as if the normal screen is a sheet of paper and then if you
rolled that into a tube then that's what my screen looks like. I'm
asking about monitors because that happend to break down too although
I don't think it had anything to do with the weather. I hope I'm not
becoming electromagetic man or something like that!

Did the TV itself get cold? Just how cold?

The cold could have caused a trace or bad solder-joint to open. You
could even have an internal failure in a component.

Another possiblity is that condensation formed. When you turned it on,
you could have caused a short circuit and blew something out.

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