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SirPeale:
If it's just the flyback...just replace the flyback.

I used to get a catalog of electronic parts, including flybacks.  I wish I could remember the name of the company, but I can't.  But they were really cheap.

Blanka:
But it is kind of strange the wide ones do more money. They have horrible stretching, bad convergence in corners, they have old tuners/input circuits (here there was PalPlus for 16:9 analog TV, but <1% of the 16:9 tv's supports PalPlus), HD signals are handled bad (4:3 tv's in 16:9 mode most of the time show DVD-component signals better than their 16:9 counterparts) and they mostly look crap and weigh twice as much as 4:3 examples (how to design a box around 60kgs of glass?). On the other hand, a good 4:3 TV is perfect for all old analog content, can be used for cabs and consoles and uses little energy. In the end a more worthwhile investment than the strange in-between character of 16:9 CRT's.

richms:
My ones only have horrible stretching in that stupid mode for 4:3 broadcasts where the edges are stretched more then the centre of the image.

No convergance problems because they are not flat screens, Sure, they dont take HD, but really thats not an issue on a screen that small. I have a 4:3 that will take 1080i and it looks a hell of a lot worse then 576p going into the same screen.

A 4:3 tv is no good IMO, because you either set the reciever to center cut and miss out on the edges, and since noone bothers shooting with any regard for being 4:3 safe these days, thats a huge problem, or you set the box to letterbox and have things surrounded by black boarders when showing things off some of the stoneage channels that are still 4:3 like most of the crap filler channels (and for some reason discovery on sky in NZ)

Yes, they are great for a mame machine, playing older consoles on them and some PS2 games that pre-dated widescreen, but as for watching off air broadcasts - not really. At least on a widescreen you can use zoom to crop the black bars off the top and bottom if you are still watching the analog broadcasts. There is still a couple of channels that are broadcasting full frame pal off air here, but the ones with anything worth watching are all letterboxed since so many people complained about missing sports scores when they were centercut.

rhoelsch:
It's a 4:3.  I'd fix it myself, but a) I only THINK it's the flyback , and b) it could kill me in a bad way. Yeah, me fixing it's off the table. Haven't gotten that parts quote from the repair center yet.
A new LCD will display analog signals pretty poorly until the digital switchover, then I'll be ok, correct?

Anyone have any HDTV caveats, while I'm still deciding?

richms:
A wide LCD will display analog signals poorly till the switchoveffr, then not display them at all, but it will display the digital signals fine now and after it, so there is no reason to care about the analog display capabilities.

I am glad that they had enough sense to shoot down that crazy idea of Obamas of delaying it because some luddites hadn't gotten their crap together in the past many years to get a box or a new TV. Hope it all goes well so that the rest of the world will have some confidence in doing it.

We don't get ours till 2012 here in NZ, and most of the UHF band is used up by an obsolete sky tv pay tv service that has a couple 10000s of customers nationwide. They wont return the spectrum because that will free it up for more free channels to compete with their proper sky satellite service. All the TV licenses are expiring in 2012 where they will either be told no more analog or get a short term extension depending on how many people are still watching. IMO it should just be turned off regardless. Its crazy that people expect services to go on indefinably when better options are available

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