The guy who ran the shop used to go into long rants about how modern TVs were just a tube, a transformer and a PCB. If the problem wasn’t with the tube or trans

The guy who ran the shop used to go into long rants about how modern TVs were just a tube, a transformer and a PCB. If the problem wasn’t with the tube or transformer then it was virtually impossible to fix as the boards were more expensive than a new TV. They closed not long after I stopped working there.