50' Projection Screen Repair?

[GIjoe]

Hey guys,

My neighbor has a Giant, 50" Mitsubishi Projection Screen TV he said I could have because he knows I love to tinker around w/ Arcade projects and what not.

The picture is really distorted and fuzzy as the TV is about 8 or 9 years old. Does Anybody have an idea how much it costs to fix these and/or what's involved in it? I know to have it serviced it's going to be insane..

Just wondering if it's worth taking

Thanks,    - Joe

[tba]

Just wondering if it's worth taking

worth taking?!? if it is free, play around with it, if not i wouldn't pay anything for it...

as my Professor in my electronics class used to love saying , try cleaning it, more then half the time it will fix your problems. if you cant get it running just push it out to the curb and put a "free" sign on it, someone will take it (i have got rid of 2 broken TVs that way)

worse thing that can happen is that you don't know what your doing touch the wrong thing a die horribly when 50,000 volts goes through you body!

[grantspain]

when you say distorted do you mean the convergence is out e.g red,blue and green seem to be in different places
does the picture have a misty effect