I've had a Phillips 20" TV for a few years now and i've never had any problem with it. All of a sudden, it just stopped working. The standby light is on so I know there's power to it. When I do manage to get it to come on, it only does so for a couple of seconds and there is a white line running across the middle of the screen, and then it switches back onto standby again. Does anybody know what could be causing this problem?

Emma Edwards, May 2007

Hi Emma, I suspect the line output transformer or associated circuitry has failed, its not a job for the amateur to attempt.
I would suggest that it would cost more to have a TV engineer come out to fix it than it would to buy a new tv, there are lots of deals out there on CRT sets as people are buying TFT .... talk to your tv retailer, I bet you can get a good deal.

Pete, May 2007

YES

MARK, May 2007