In article , "Fred Mann" wrote:
I have a Samsung TV manufactured in 1998. I picked it up from a trash pile
on bulky-item pickup day!! To my surprise, it worked fine. But occasionally,
the picture would "compress" or shrink in an oscillating fashion. It would
"shrink" in the way that the image "shrinks" when you turn off a TV (right
before the screen goes black). It would oscillate, and sometimes turn itself
off. (sound was fine) Gradually, this started to happen more often, until it
began to turn itself off after only a couple of minutes. Now, when I hit the
power button, the TV does not come on at all, but there is a "click" sound,
followed immediatley by another "click" sound as the TV shuts itself back
off.
Any ideas?

The most obvious idea is that you have learned why it was in the trash pile.
:-)

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