Saga of an old TV set
by hazel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6D9PX)
My old Toshiba TV served me well for 18 years but eventually failed. No signal at all on some channels, picture/sound breakup and failure after 5 minutes on others. Obviously a tuning problem. A TV/aerial specialist tested the aerial and said reception was still fine, so it must be the tuning circuit inside the TV that was busted. And apparently no one fixes TVs any more.
So I bought a second-hand LCD TV from a local charity shop and got a friend to help me move the old set out and put it just inside the front gate. This was done yesterday. I booked the local council online to take it away for recycling, but the earliest they could come was August 8th. OK, I could wait. The set wasn't in anyone's way there.
This morning, I heard a lot of noise and suddenly the set was gone. I have no idea who took it or how they managed to carry it away. I mean, it was huge. Of course I wondered what anyone could possibly want with an old cathode-ray tube TV with no controller.
Well, I just googled and apparently these things are gold dust for retro games players, because old games just don't look right on an LCD screen. I hope whoever has it doesn't get disappointed and bring it back!
So I bought a second-hand LCD TV from a local charity shop and got a friend to help me move the old set out and put it just inside the front gate. This was done yesterday. I booked the local council online to take it away for recycling, but the earliest they could come was August 8th. OK, I could wait. The set wasn't in anyone's way there.
This morning, I heard a lot of noise and suddenly the set was gone. I have no idea who took it or how they managed to carry it away. I mean, it was huge. Of course I wondered what anyone could possibly want with an old cathode-ray tube TV with no controller.
Well, I just googled and apparently these things are gold dust for retro games players, because old games just don't look right on an LCD screen. I hope whoever has it doesn't get disappointed and bring it back!