I have finally accepted my fate and purchased a new TV.
Wonder if I'll be able to get a new driver board or something and be able to make use of the old panel somehow.
Still very annoyed, but I can't say it's an intermittent fault any more. It's more like it's intermittently working OK.
@mike Seems to be the season for dying teevs. Our dumb 32" TV, bought for $50 (no remote) in the early teens, recently began randomly turning itself on in the middle of the night. Scary. I went to buy a $90 40" (no remote) from Cash Converters, ended up with a $99 32" (no remote) instead due to a brain fart. On the bright side, our universal remote, which only turned volume up or down for the old device, works perfectly for the new one. So yay.
It's an Android TV, but we'll never connect it.
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
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