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From: rainer@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rainer Malzbender)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.video
Subject: Re: Television turning itself off
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Date: 13 Sep 90 18:14:15 GMT
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In article <595@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> gedwards@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
>I have a Sony TV that has a really bad habit of turning off at 
>random times while your watching it.  Sometimes it will stay on
>for a half hour or an hour but other times it will only stay on
>for about a minute.  I tried using a surge protector but that 
>didn't help.
> ... (plea for help deleted and ignored)

Hey, consider it a blessing. A few years ago my TV went on the fritz and
I didn't bother to fix it. Haven't gotten as much reading and other stuff
done before or since. Now I gotta watch Twin Peaks, though.
--
Rainer Malzbender           "Having a deep aversion to useless complication,
Dept. of Physics             God naturally chose the antisymmetric tensor 
U. of Colorado, Boulder      as His medium of expression." - M. Schwartz