No TV! Our TV blew something yesterday. The screen went out of proportion and then we smelled some kind of burning while we were watching the Looney Tunes right after I posted. We turned off the TV and the DVD/VCR player and I checked them both and found the smell to be coming from the TV.
Well, it isn’t a big loss. We don’t have any TV reception. We just use it to watch movies or we get shows on DVD and watch them at our leasure. The kids had a fit. They didn’t know how they were going to finish the LT shows. I let them watch them on the computer today. I just don’t like how small the computer screen is. It’s very hard to be comfortably laying on the couch 7 feet away and see the screen easily. For that reason, TV shopping will happen when paycheck time comes.
I don’t allow the kids to watch much stuff though. Only about an hour or an hour and a half during the course of a day. Sometimes not even that much. Jeremy and I like to watch an episode of something after they go to bed. Monk, Lost, Law and Order: CI and that kind of stuff. (BTW, Lost is so confusing sometimes. It’s hard to wait to see the next episode to find out what happens next.)
Now… how do I get rid of the bad TV? It’s not allowed to be put with our trash. I’m almost thinking of just putting it out with a sign that says, “Free messed up TV, for those who like to tinker.”
tinkering with a tv is extremely dangerous, fyi. It doesn’t fully dispell it’s electrical charge and if you are not very careful it can actually kill you.
Ditto. It ranks right up there with tinkering with a computer monitor. Don’t mess with it if you have the slightest bit of doubt as to what you’re doing.
I never said I was going to tinker with it or let someone else do it. I said “I’m almost thinking” as in I’m joking. You know how people will say something like that in an exasperated voice when they can’t think of anything else.
Where’s your sense of humor?
A website on T.V. disposal:
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/hazard/televisions.htm
I never knew electrical charges are held in an unpluged T.V. or computer monitor.
I question if all electrical devices hold their charge?
A good topic to investigate!
I think Jeremy is planning to take it to his work and get rid of it with the computer stuff they dispose of.
Ok…so my dad used to tinker with TVs. While they were plugged in! There were some image problems on one we had and to fix it, he wiped the cathode ray tube (I think that’s what it’s called) and that did it. There was an incredible amount of static electricity and I think it traumatized me for life. LOL.