In February 2013 we purchased a digital flat screen TV - with a built in DVD player. Must have got sick of having to route the signal through a video recorder that could cope with digital signal and feed it to the old TV, which was analogue. That involved a three part turning on procedure, start TV, Start video recorder, ask the TV to 'talk' to the video.! When digital first came in, the analogue signal stayed, and it accessed about four channels. Then many more channels were available digitally, and all the promotions proclaimed the virtues of greater clarity etc,etc. On another thought, the analogue TV was not wide screen either, so the picture was either incomplete, or distorted!   Then the analogue signal was turned off - so you got a new TV, or a "Black box" for the old one.

The inbuilt DVD player quit working a year or so ago, but the one mentioned above could be used to play DVD's.

Now the four and a bit yr old flat screen has 'spat the dummy'!   [Hitachi  brand - am I allowed to say that?]

Wife said it collapsed the picture to a green screen one evening when I was out. She turned it off at the wall. When turned back on it worked as it should, but a few days later went to the green screen again, this time accompanied by loud static.

Once again it worked OK when fired up the next evening.

But now it has done it again - and is DEAD.

Of course it is out of warranty.

Any comments on what make of digital TV to replace it with would be appreciated.