Its for ascetic purposes lol

You mean aesthetic?

Ascetic would be if you sold off all of this stuff and moved into a hole in the ground to live as a religious hermit.

Honestly speaking, that's not so unusual that one would have missed that. If the TV had more lead shielding, it may not have affected it.

This also reminds me of a time that I had a micro cassette answering machine next to my cordless phone base. Every so often the answering machine would literally go nuts and fail to record or playback messages. I kept thinking it was just a machine going bad and there was nothing I could do about it. Then one day, I decided I needed to look inside of it and as I studied how the mechanism worked I noticed something interesting that gave me an idea of what the problem could be. The machine was designed w/ reed switches to operate the motor functions and it dawned on me that they rely on magnetism to work. So... I simply moved the answering machine further away from the cordless phone base and just like that the answering machine worked perfectly again. The issue was that the cordless phone base was also a speaker phone with an un-shielded speaker giving off enough magnetism to mess w/ the answering machine reed switches.

I don't think the manual for the answering machine mentioned anything about placement so it's not like I should have known that was a possible problem. So yeah... nothing to be embarrassed about .

well if you saw where I watch laserdisc and played nintendo I guess it's similar to a hole in the ground.

Overall I'm glad you were able to figure it out, hope you didn't have to buy the degasuer as you really won't need it now that you figured this part out.

Nope Figure it out before I bought it!