On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 05:39:12 -0400, "Jerry G."
wrote:

If you have patchy colours in the picture, this is usually caused by a
failed degassing coil. If the problem occurred after you serviced the set,
look to see if the degaussing coil became disconnected. It is common that
the degausser-thermo resistor goes bad in some of these sets.


Thanks for the tip. I haven't got around to servicing it yet. TV
watching isn't that vital to me.

The problem happened last week. It was perfect but appeared after I
fell asleep on the sofa.