[Coco] An interesting computer repair story

[Sean]

I have an 8 year old rear projection, and the convergence circuit went
out recently.  Fortunately there is a TV guy in my area that still
makes house calls!

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> Unfortunatly here in the US TV repairs shops are just about extinct.  I
> know there is not one TV repair shop with in 30 miles from my small city.
> That and the move to digital TV (even OTA stations are digital now) makes
> the old tube TVs obsolete unless you use a converter box, or it happen to
> have a digital tuner.  Even with a DTV converter you loose much if the
> screen because many shows/stations have gone to wide screen format,
> resulting in black bars taking up a good chunk of realestate on the common
> 4:3 aspect ratio CRTs.  Heck I have even notice my wide screen 16:9
> widescreen TV not the right aspect ratio for some new blue-ray movies.
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