Sheryl asked me, “Were you watching TV in the living room?”
Um, yeah.
“Well, it won’t turn on anymore,” she said.
Have you seen those electronics store ads where the guy accidentally breaks the TV and then his wife suggests that they go buy a new HDTV? I didn’t break the TV, but I did do the fist pump part.
We have a 9-year-old Sony Trinitron. We paid $2,000 for it the day before flat screens got introduced. (Yep, I have that kind of Irish luck.) It’s served us well and has probably given a decent number of viewing hours to us. But it’s dead. Won’t turn on. And when I Googled about that problem with that kind of set, the advice was dire: Don’t bother getting it repaired. More pieces will fail on it.
Zoiks. So, we have this giant TV monster in our living room that doesn’t work. It must be 2 feet deep (we didn’t buy a flat screen, we bought a fat screen). And I’m thinking it weight 200 lbs. I asked Sheryl, “How do you dispose of a dead TV?”
I don’t know that answer. But I do know that I’ll be finding out soon.
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Put that TV in the trash for Norristown junkman to pick up and get a new one and point a roof antennae towards Roxborough for free HiDef. Boycott pay TV!
Great idea…I’m hoping that I put it out, and some scavenger comes by to get it. Hope they’re wearing a truss.
I’m too into pay Tv at this point, though. It’s all about Deadliest Catch and Project Runway. Go figure.
there are places that take hazardous waste materials – don’t just let the trash man crunch it!
Word-on-the-street is big-discounts on TVs this holiday season. Try BJs too. I’m waiting on going HD until my old Magnavox goes kablooey.
Yeah Albert – recycling all those TVs is going to be a nightmare</>. I’m sure we’ll just send them all for some second- or third-world country to deal with. I doubt municipalities are thinking of dumping all that lead and carcinogens in their landfills (as opposed to special drop-offs) – maybe we need to get recyclers involved – there’s also precious metals in there too, right?
I’ll be doing some research on this today…want to do the right thing. Just never had to toss such a big monster before. This is like throwing away a car.
I think I’ll wait a bit. It’d be great if there were discounts. That’s one upside of a bad economy.
I bought a Sylvania super set in 1988, it was a floor demo model at American. It still works great! We don’t use it, it’s a 20″, but it’s still in the basement collecting dust. I should probably throw it away one of these days…
Dave, that’s funny, we have some old TVs too…and they work great. This one is only 8 or 9 years old…honestly, I’ve never had a TV die before. And this one’s such a monster, I have to think about how to dispose of it. We’re calling the township services today to figure it out.
Side story: We had a 13-inch color TV that I dropped when we moved once. It stopped working. So, I took it apart. Saw that a motherboard was cracked, so I went to yank it out. The 25,000 volt capacitor discharged on me and almost gave me a heart attack. Then I pulled out the board, soldered all the broken joints, and the TV worked for many more years.
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