The picture on my tv has become a narrow horizontal slit in the middle of the screen........help???

Question

its a Panasonic...not quite 10 years old....it worked fine until me ex moved it in the front seat of his car.....it did this before then stopped, now soemtimes works, sometimes doesnt.

is this a problem in the picture tube?....is it fixable? any ideas how much? (i'm in canada)

Answer 1

It most probably needs to be repaired or replaced - sorry.

Answer 2

A narrow slit, do you mean like one line?

Your set lost vertical deflection.  Since this happened when it was moved, (I'm making a guess here) there is probably a bad solder joint in it that fractured when the set was moved.  I'm sure a TV repair shop could take care of this relatively cheaply.

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

there should be a way to adjust that-

try going into the menu and tweek some of the picture settings-