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Posted on Mar 22, 2008

Color messed up on tv since lightning strike

A couple of months ago, lightning struck my apartment building and the color on all 3 tv's in my apartment were messed up. The next day, the living room tv had straightened up as well as one tv in one of the bedrooms; however, my small Emerson tv is still messed up in the other bedroom. Is there a way to correct this issue?

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Anonymous

Your tv may have ben magnetized by the lightning strike.
tv's have an automatic degaussing circuit that demagnetizes
the pix tube when the set is turned on. this degaussing circuit
may not be working or magnetism may have been too strong for
the internal degaussing to correct.
contact local tv repair shop in your area see if they can manually
degauss your set , it should be a min. service charge around $25.
roland

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