the above tv has been brill but now has gone widescreen ! looks like the picture is bent at the bottom. please help. kind regards paul. ps give it a good wallop and its ok for 10 min then starts getting narrower.

paul adams, March 2007

thank you cobweb. very much appreciated. regards paul

paul adams, May 2007

That chassis often suffers from frame output ic problems.
So I suspect IC561. If you're lucky resoldering may solve it, as the part (TDA8175-3) is no longer manufactured and not easily obtainable anymore. Panasonic now supply a modification kit to overcome this,..which is a real 'Heath Robinson' affair.

Otherwise you could try...
http://www.cricklewoodelectronics.com/Cricklewood/customer/search.php?substring=tda8175

Cobweb, March 2007