Mister Ed’s Fix It Shoppe

Consumer Electronics Repair · Anne Arundel County, MD

A vintage tube television with a cracked, broken screen The same television, fixed and working Hover to see it fixed

TV repair

Flat-panel and older tube sets, diagnosed and repaired by hand — not just swapped for new.

Interior of a CRT television opened up with the picture tube exposed for repair
Diagnosing a tube set

What’s included

  • Power supply and capacitor repair for sets that won’t turn on, or click and stay dark
  • Backlight and inverter repair for flat panels with a dim or missing picture
  • Board-level diagnosis for lines, color loss, or a picture that cuts in and out
  • Tube and yoke work on older CRT sets, while parts are still available
  • An honest answer on whether the repair is worth it before any work starts

Common problems

A television that won’t turn on at all is almost never the whole panel — it’s usually the power supply board, and often just a handful of capacitors on it. That’s a repair measured in tens of dollars in parts, not a new set.

Flat panels that power on with sound but a dim or missing picture usually have a backlight or inverter problem rather than a failed display. Sets with lines across the image, color that’s drifted or disappeared, or a picture that flickers in and out point to a board-level fault that’s almost always repairable on the bench.

Older tube sets fail differently — a bad flyback transformer, a weak tube, or degraded capacitors in the high-voltage section. These take more care to diagnose safely, which is exactly what a proper bench is for.

From the bench

Real repairs, not stock photography.

Wide view of a television circuit board pulled for diagnosis
Board-level diagnosis
Closed CRT television unit ready to go back to its owner
Back together

What it costs

Cost depends on what’s actually wrong, not the size of the screen. A capacitor or power-supply repair is usually inexpensive; a failed panel or a hard-to-source part for an older set may not be worth fixing, and you’ll hear that upfront. Call or email with the symptoms for a straight answer.