Television and Home Theater

i have a sony 62" projection tv model# kp-61v25. its been working great till one day i turned it off and some lines showed up on the upper part of the screen. i then turn the tv on and off twice to see if the lines would go away but they didnt. i then unplugged the tv and plugged it back and all was well. later i came back and when i tryed to turn the tv on all i hear were 2 clicks, that it. any help would be greatly appreciated

I mades a sweep of some of the local consumer electronics outlets this weekend just to see what's new. I was glad to see some "monitors" showing up on the market. (By monitor I mean a video display device and nothing more... especially no tuner, but ideally no speakers either.)

Is it just me or can someone explain to me why the TV industry is SOOOOOO slow on the uptake.

My Toshiba 36A61 tube television will not switch between modes of TV/Video, and as a result I cannot run my DVD player or VCR. Is this a problem with this midel of tv or is there something I can do. the manual says to repeatedly press TV/Video to switch to a different input, but it does not change from TV. Any ideas?