Lively 'Hoods
Quality Workmanship is Still Around the Corner in East Providence
R&J TV Repair quietly preserves a tradition.
The holiday gadget frenzy done, the reality hangover sets in. That oversized plasma TV on the wall doesn’t work so well now. If you didn’t throw out the warranty with the wrapping paper, maybe you can squint through tiny fine print in twenty languages. Maybe you can bring it back. Maybe you can’t. Or maybe you bring it to Ray and Joe on Waterman Avenue. “People want to hang them on the walls, but the TVs can’t breathe,” says Joe. “The fans don’t blow enough air to keep the circuits cool, and they break down.” Not like the old days, when a good Panasonic could go forever on parts you took from another TV, or even made by hand. “The old sets were a lot easier, you could sub a part, but the new sets, you can’t do that,” explains Joe, “They …
