Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So, the screen on your TV is showing signs of trouble. Maybe it’s a minor annoyance, like a few dead pixels or horizontal lines.

Who can say ‘no’ to a free TV, even if it’s broken? This was the situation [Andrew Menadue] ended up in last year when he was offered an LG 39LE4900 LCD TV. As [Andrew] describes in the blog post ...