Where I live, the town picks up old TVs(reasonable size) on garbage day. Large appliances and possibly larger TVs ect, require contacting the town and scheduling a collection date which costs something like $10-15 for pickup here. The only other alrernative is to haul the TV to your local dump and likely pay a small fee.

The tuner went on my Sony a while back and I figured it would cost around $200ish to fix, which I felt wasn't worth it compared to putting that money into a new flat screen.

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