strange television behaviour...

[vorticon]

recently my television has been switching off for no reason whatsoever, randomly...any ideas why?

[Maniac]

Check your window.

We used to do this when we were kids, every mate took their TV remote from home and went out on the streets with em.

Sneeked up to the windows, turned off the pplīs TV sets, changed channels, raised the volume etc

[Curval]

lol maniac...

[straffo]

Isn't it one the 1st symptom of alien abuction ?

[rpm]

It could be a high voltage transformer overheating.

[Staga]

poltergeist
   
   
pol·ter·geist (plural pol·ter·geists)


noun
noisy spirit: a supposed supernatural spirit that reveals its presence by creating disturbances, for example, by knocking over objects

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by vorticon
recently my television has been switching off for no reason whatsoever, randomly...any ideas why?

  A company recently released a remote to do exactly that, Turn off your neighbor`s TV. They did a story about it on a local news channel here describing the havoc it was causing.
  Evidently it does a self scan for freq and mode.

[RightF00T]

Watch out for this b*tch...!

[RTStuka]

Originally posted by RightF00T
Watch out for this b*tch...!

ROFLMFAO HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[XNachoX]

Originally posted by RightF00T
Watch out for this b*tch...!

Watch out for this one too....(The Grudge)
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Misty tales and poems lost
All the bliss and beauty will be gone
Will my weary soul find release for a while
At the moment of death I will smile
It's the triumph of shame and disease
In the end Iliad

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by vorticon
recently my television has been switching off for no reason whatsoever, randomly...any ideas why?

Had a dying set a few years ago that would do that sometimes.
Then sometimes when you would turn it back it would start racing through the channels all by itself before it shut itself off again.

Would haveta unplug it sometimes over night then it would work fine again for a few days and it would start all over again.

Was really comical. and annoying

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by RightF00T
Watch out for this b*tch...!

Is that from The Ring ?

[mora]

I had the same thing in my set. First it started to switch itself off randomly, and after a year or so it died. I repaired it with instructions I found from the net. The problem was  2 electrolytecondensators which had died and caused the death of a transistor.

If you have even little knowledge of electronics and soldering you might be able to repair it easily. There's plenty of sites with instructions on the net, here's one:

http://www.e-repair.co.uk/tips.htm

[WhiteHawk]

Yea, yer sets dying.  A trace or something is heating up and breaking the circuit.

[lazs2]

I had an old console TV that did that.  it was like 10 years old so I got a new one and gave it to my brother... had to get it to his house in a pickup and it bounced around some getting there.    that was 7 years ago and it has never done it for him... thing works perfectly.

lazs