Seems that TVs today are considered disposable. We have an odd situation with the TV in the bedroom of our HitchHiker: it gets a signal fine on cable or satellite, but not from over the air (OTA) antenna. Yes, it is the TV, not our coax cables, switcher box, booster, or antenna... we tried another TV in that location with all the same cables and it works fine.
Figuring that we can't break it any more than what it is, we took the TV down (it is mounted in a cabinet door) and started taking it apart...
Nothing out of the ordinary - nothing that is obviously disconnected. We dug in further.
Don't touch that - you'll get electrocuted!
Took apart the do-hickey (technical term for the coax connection on the TV) connected to the whatchamacallit (printed circuit board)... again, nothing that appeared disconnected. "I've done what I can... time to close it up." ( I think I have been watching too many TV medical dramas).
It's a giant pain in the butt getting that TV lined up in the cabinet door, but doable with the two of us working together (how many husband/wife teams can say that?
).Got it all put back together and... yep, same situation. Works on cable and satellite, not on the antenna. I guess I will be watching satellite programming until we can go TV shopping. I can see that the REAL problem here is going to be finding a TV that has similar dimensions. If I am living good, it will have the same hole pattern (also seems that there are different size hole patterns, depending on the TV and the size).
On the bright side, I did accomplish something useful today: our daughter and son-in-law have bicycles that haven't gotten any use in a long while because... "the tires are flat." While they were at work today, and in between messing with the TV, we ran to Wally World and picked up a couple innertubes. Replaced two goners. Pumped up the tires. Now, they have no excuse.
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