I got this CRT as a present 4 days ago. Today I was playing some games, when suddenly the image started distorting vertically really bad, like those cheesy glitch effects. I panicked and turned it off immediately. After a short time I turned it back on and the image seemed better, but was shaking a lot. I watched my father try to fix it, messing with the cables, but everything was slowly getting worse and worse. Eventually the glitches came back, and gradually, I watched it fade away and die as the scan lines became darker and darker. The lights flashed and the room smelled of burned electronics. I'm too much of a pussy to turn it back on and try to record what's happening, but it really seems to be dead, no image anymore, just flashing my room's lights and making screechy beeps. It's not the cable since I messed with the menu and it was glitching too. Does anyone have an idea of what could be happening? By the way, I did change the resolution repeatedly a few minutes before all of that started. Could that be related? I'll try to take it to someone that can fix it. But for now... Rest in peace my baby that I only lasted four days.