Re: Found an old tube TV. Want to find out more about it.

Man, you are just 3 years too late to watch Channel 9 OTA from Windsor. Do you have one of those coupon converter boxes?

A friend of mine worked for Motorola TV. I think he lasted two years after Matsushita bought them out (Quasar). (Motorola's motto: If you can't beat them, try to unload your unprofitable division on them.) Their color TVs used plug in cards for easy repair ("the works in a drawer, and the drawer in the shop").

Chicago was the hub of the American consumer electronics industry....

Re: Samsung DTB-H260F HDTV Tuner

I am going to take a SWAG at Lowell's problem, and guess that he has a cold solder joint on one of his replacement caps.

Re: Samsung DTB-H260F HDTV Tuner

Thanks to this thread and Bluto's detailed list of Digikey P/Ns, I am back watching TV.

Over the years, my tuner had occasionally locked up, but a 30 second unplugging had always reset it.
Monday night, the tuner played the channel it had last played on Sunday. Changing the channel worked, but no audio. After unplugging it for 30 seconds, I could not get the blue LED to come on.
Opening the box showed no obviously bulging caps, except maybe the 450 V one, but only very slightly. But this time, when I plugged it back in, the...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi,
I heard about badcaps a few years ago from reading sci.electronics.repair. But I didn't really need to come here until my Samsung HDTV tuner quit working, and badcaps.net had the answer. Within 48 hours I'm back watching TV. (Is this good or bad? I'm not going to get philosophical.)

I joined so I could post my thanks to the Samsung thread.