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Originally Posted by takisawa
Whilst watching the TV through the STB on Monday night the TV gave up the ghost with an audible "poooff" that seemed to coinside with the numbers on the STB rapidly changing for a second or so...
The TV is only a £200 budget Medion model from Aldi, but it is only 2 years old.
Could this be a consequence of the bodged installation perhaps...?
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It will be a coincidence. The "Bodged installation" just means that the STB is not recieving a high enough quality signal to be stable, hence you get picture breakup/freezes etc. This has absolutely nothing to do with the RGB SCART (or even RF aerial) output of the box. It *is* possible for the STB to damage the TV, but only where the STB's power supply has failed (and you would know if it had as your STB would no longer work at all)
As someone who is into electronics, I have seen the insides of these cheapo TV's and it's amazing they even work, very cheap/poor quality parts run at too much stress. The "poof" you're describing probably means the primary side of the tube power supply has failed. You could probably get it repaired quite cheaply at any TV shop.