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I have a small portable colour TV which is fairly old.
After a few years, on start up a craggy black area was visible at the bottom
of the machine but after a time this would slowly recede and the picture
would again be visible over the entire screen.

Recently, this strange balck area has increased in size til it now
covers the bottom past of the screen. After a few minutes,
it may slowly disappear or it may not. I've found that if it goes into
a phase of black-mountains-not-disappearing then if I turn it off
and leave it for a few days then when I switch back on, although
the annoying black stuff is back at least it goes away.

Does anyone know what's happening?
Is it curable or is it going through the TV equivalent of
an agonising death?
I'd rather fix it for a few pounds rather than spend hundreds
on a new TV.

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Rob Scott
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