"mrcheerful ." wrote in message
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"Mark" wrote in message
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Does this sound terminal? My parents have a 6 yr old Sony 25 inch
standard TV. It's used every day but over the last few months started to
take a few minutes to come on each day. It went ok for a few weeks but
recently started again to take a while to come on, but now the picture
has also gone pink! It seems to be only white or light colours that
have turned pink. For e.g, sky & cloud shots and anything that supposed
to be white are all pink (watching Emmerdale all the sheep were pink,
lol) Darker colours appear to remain normal. Could it be the tube on
the way out?



could be, but the first thing a pro would do is give the set a good whack
with the flat of the hand on the casing , if this affects the
picture/fixes
it then probably you have a bad connection inside,

You must have met some strange 'pros'.

in which case cautious
wiggling of boards inside using a wooden rod might locate the fault,
otherwise it needs a pro to look, but for a tv of that age it is probably
not worth getting a repair place to look at it.

mrcheerful

Frightening advice.

This is probably a tube fault - green gun low, or no, emission ( assuming
'pink' is a magenta raster). There are quick ways of determining this -
swapping drive leads over, for example - but not advisable for the
inexperienced.