Toshiba 32ZP18 Fault

[blueboy2001]

I've got a Toshiba 32ZP18 "Picture Frame" CRT TV - had it a while now and recently it has developed an intermittent fault where the picture will die and you get horizontal bands of flashing colours on the screen. Switching it to standby and back on ususally gives no picture just sound or the flashing, if I turn it off at the switch for 30 seconds or so and back on the picture returns. Sometimes it will go for weeks without doing it, sometimes it'll do it 4 times in an evening but it does seem to be getting more frequent.

Anyone any ideas what it could be, and if it would be worthwhile getting it repaired? If it was dead I'd call out a repairman but with it being intermittent I don't want to go down the road of swapping parts only for the fault to return and end up being told it needs a new tube and will cost hundreds.

I paid about a grand for it, it has built in Dolby Digital sound too which is great. Only the latest HD LCD's using a HD source give a noticeably better picture than it and as I'm not short of space I've been interested in swapping it yet.

 

[clockworks]

Good TV - I had the 36ZP18P.

As you say, getting an intermittent fault fixed can be a real pain. It might be worth finding a real TV repairman (someone who still fixes things, rather than a boardswapper), and asking for advice. It may be a known fault, which he can fix without swapping bits on a "suck it and see" basis.

Although you say that it's better than a flat panel, I prefer my Samsung LE40 to my old Tosh. Sure, it has some digital processing problems (mostly banding/posterisation) which the CRT set hid in the general fuzziness, but the absence of scanning "jaggies" more than makes up for it to my eyes.