Have you ever bought a refurbished TV?

Is it possible for a Gamecube to fry a TV?

• My parents have a sparingly used Gamecube and and TV that's about 3 years old (RCA I believe). Well, I come to visit and they tell me that the Gamecube broke the TV. Trying to figure out what REALLY happened, all I can come up with is the TV was dropped when they got a new Entertainment Center, the TV was refurbished and just died, a power surge fried the thing, or the Cathode ray tube was just faulty. I tried explaining hat's it's not possible that having a console plugged into a component slot would cause the TV to stop turning on (goes straight into standby mode, then off). If this were true, then why wouldn't the VCR, Cable Box, or DVD player do the same thing? It's not physically possible for any component plug in to this. They've already tossed the TV and bought a new one, so sending it in to the manufacturer is out of the question. Am I wrong in my supposition, or is my family just plain insane.

• Answer:

  I'm with you Mark. The Game Cube did not cause the problem. It sounds as though there was some sort of power supply fault. Lots of people observe something and then make the wrong connection with what caused it. It is a pretty normal human trait.