TV Repair for Beginners

Many of the repairs made by high-priced TV shops actually involve only cleaning or adjusting a few components, or replacing one or two 20p parts, available at the local electronics shop. This guide aims to enable the reader to save money by repairing many of the most common TV problems by his/herself. It is intended as a learning tool for video hobbyists, students and beginning technicians, covering solid-state TV circuitry, high-definition television, large screen TVs, and TV stereo systems.

The definitive do-it-yourself TV repair guide! TV Repair For Beginners, Revised and Expanded Attention, TV lovers! This book is your best defense against any interruption in that source of fabulous entertainment sitting a remote-click away. Let's face it, nothing is worse than the TV going on the blink. No sports, no news, no game shows, no soaps, no talk, no cops-and-robbers. Life without TV is simply hardly worth living. It must be fixed, and pronto, but how? You can pay a stupendous amount for a house call or you can haul it to the repair shop yourself and still be charged a fortune. This book offers a better way. It shows you how very simple repairing your own TV an be! Without technical jargon, it shows and tells you how to troubleshoot and repair the most common TV problems--and avoid those expensive repair bills! Photographs and charts lead you through each repair step-by-step. The book's emphasis is on pinpointing the problem and fixing it--using just a few basic tools. You also get plenty of material on simple ways to upgrade old TVs with new add-ons. This revised and expanded edition features a wealth of timely and practical new material on: Universal remote transmitters. Stereo TV; Digital controls; New color circuits and picture tube sizes; Installing digital satellite receivers.