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Showing Original Post only (View all)Old television hell HELP [View all]
My mother's old TV (20 years old) no longer works it seems which is very sad to me. Its one of the few things I have left from her (she passed in 2002 of cancer).
I dumped the cable a few moths ago.
I was getting ONE channel (C-SPAN) for a couple of months after the cut-off and my DVD player hooked up to it still worked, but now a big nothing.
I've tried several different antennas and none of them work.
I even bought a converter box (analog to digital) and still a giant nothing.
It has a built in VCR that still works but now the DVD player I have attached to is via a small black box with lots of cables no longer works either.
This is basically an old TV that has never been used much.
It is a Panasonic 20" color TV if that means anything at all.
Have I done all I can do? Should I just keep it to watch old VHS tapes on or is there an option I am missing?
Please help if you can.
Many thanks from ...
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Unless your tv is "new" enough to have a usb port (which I doubt) this is useless advice
hlthe2b
Feb 2019
#4
If there are any old time tv repair shops near that work on analog "tube" tvs, you might call them
hlthe2b
Feb 2019
#3
You could make an aquarium, a liquor cabinet or a cat bed out of it.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2019
#34