The TV I got for my birthday in 2006 is already messing up. It's a 32" Magnavox tube TV. The past few months it has just gotten worse and worse at the top of the screen. At first it was just a few lines, but then the image started to look inverted almost 1/4th of the way down from the top of the screen. There's also solid black now for the first 3/4" from the top.

It makes it really difficult to play my video games. Watching regular TV has gotten almost unbearable. Now that football season is over, the Olympics are over, and we don't have cable any more anyway, it shouldn't be too big a deal. But eventually even watching movies that are in widescreen will be affected if the TV gets much worse. It also has never really handled changes in light very well and sometimes gets briefly discolored if the screen is too bright for too long.

I'm afraid we'll have to splurge and get a new TV sometime this year. I'd really like a flat screen HDTV that will last a while. It's just hard to spend $600 or more on something we don't really use much. We'll see how much worse our current TV gets before we buy anything and maybe wait until next football season.