🚀 go-pugleaf

        I'll reply in greater detail by Email.

        Yes, heads go bad but

                           It's very rare.
              It usually doesn't happen "all of a sudden"

        As in any other electronic gizmo, any part along the line can
        fail.  First picture tubes and now Video heads seem to develop
        this "legend" of things that always go bad.

        In 10 years of servicing TVs, I found and replaced 2 pix tubes.

        In a long period of servicing over 1000 rental VCRs for a chain,
        I may have replaced 4 or 5 heads.

        My point here is know your service shop well.  Other popular
        electronic legends -

         "The microprocessor is bad" - If the unit comes on and performs
         some of it's functions, the microprocessor may be just fine.
         Usually when it goes, nothing works.

        "It's probably a cable problem" - Alas, the other day I found my
        father sitting in front of his accidentally-unplugged TV
        complaining that something was wrong with the CABLE!

And, just for fun, my favorite customer line when bringing something in
for repair -

        "There can't be too much wrong with it - it worked ok
        yesterday."

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