Electronics Repair
Home & Office Electronics Repair in Burbank
TVs, monitors, receivers, turntables, printers, projectors, POS terminals and the equipment that everyone else tells you to throw away. Diagnosed in your home or office, repaired where repair makes sense.
- In-home and on-site — large TVs and racked equipment never have to move
- Honest repair-or-replace numbers before you spend anything
- Vintage and legacy audio equipment welcome
- Business hardware: POS terminals, receipt printers, digital signage, conference AV
Almost everything is repairable. Not everything is worth repairing.
Those are two different statements and the electronics industry deliberately blurs them. A 65" TV with a failed power board is a $200 repair on a set that costs $700 to replace — clearly worth it. The same TV with a cracked or failed LCD panel is not worth repairing, because the panel is 80% of the manufacturing cost. The whole job is telling you which situation you're in, quickly and truthfully.
My rule is simple: if the repair costs more than half the replacement price of an equivalent unit, I'll tell you to replace it. I'll still say that when it costs me the job, because the alternative is a customer who spends $400 and then spends $700 six months later.
Televisions & displays
The common, genuinely repairable faults:
- No power / clicking / standby light only — usually the power supply board, often just a handful of failed capacitors. Very repairable.
- Sound but no picture — typically backlight LED strips or the LED driver. Repairable, moderate labor.
- Lines, bars or half the screen wrong — T-CON board or the panel's ribbon connections. Sometimes repairable, sometimes panel failure.
- Dim, uneven or blotchy backlight — failing LED strips. Repairable.
- HDMI ports dead — main board. Repairable.
- Smart features stopped working, apps won't load — usually software, sometimes just a firmware or storage problem. Often fixable in twenty minutes.
- Cracked or physically damaged panel — not economically repairable. Full stop, and you'll be told immediately.
Brands: Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, Vizio, Panasonic, Sharp, Insignia, Toshiba. Both LED/LCD and OLED — though OLED panel faults (burn-in, dead pixels in the panel itself) are replacement territory.
Audio equipment, including the old stuff
This is a service that has largely disappeared, and it shouldn't have. Stereo receivers, integrated amplifiers, power amps, tuners, cassette decks, CD players and turntables from the 1970s onward were built to be serviced, and much of what fails on them is trivially fixable: dirty switches and potentiometers, dried-out capacitors, seized relays, perished belts, cold solder joints.
- Dead channel or one side quieter than the other
- Receiver going into protection mode
- Crackling volume knobs and scratchy inputs
- Turntable speed drift, belt replacement, cartridge and stylus fitting, tonearm alignment and tracking-force setup
- Cassette deck belts and idler tires
- Speaker surround rot — the foam surrounds on 1980s and 1990s woofers crumble, and re-foaming is a fraction of replacement cost
- Modern AV receivers: HDMI board failures, ARC/eARC handshake problems, network and firmware issues
A well-made receiver from 1978 that gets a service will outlive anything sold today. If it belonged to someone in your family, that's usually reason enough on its own.
Office & business electronics
- Laser and inkjet printers: paper feed, roller, fuser, print head, drum and network faults
- Multifunction copiers and scanners
- POS terminals, cash drawers, receipt printers, barcode scanners, card readers, customer displays
- Digital signage screens, media players and mounting
- Conference room AV: displays, cameras, mics, soundbars, HDMI matrix and cable runs
- Projectors — lamps, filters, dust in the optics, keystone and alignment, ceiling mount adjustment
- UPS units and battery replacement
- Shredders, laminators, time clocks and the rest of the office's forgotten hardware
On-site matters for businesses more than anywhere. A dead receipt printer in a Magnolia Park shop on a Saturday is lost revenue every hour it's down, and shipping it away isn't an option.
Home theater & AV setup
Not strictly repair, but it's the same visit for most people. TV mounted and cables concealed, soundbar or 5.1/7.1 system connected and level-matched, everything consolidated onto one remote, streaming devices set up, picture calibrated out of the ludicrous "Vivid" mode it shipped in, and universal remote programming so a guest can turn it on. Room acoustics advice included free, because moving a speaker eighteen inches is usually worth more than a hardware upgrade.
Send a photo of the back-panel label and a short description of what it's doing. You'll get a straight answer — repairable, worth it, or not — at no charge and with no pressure. If it isn't worth fixing I'll tell you where to recycle it responsibly in Burbank, and I'll haul it if I'm already at your house.
Electronics repair pricing
Diagnostic is credited toward the repair. Parts at cost with receipts.
| Service | Typical price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| On-site diagnostic | $85 | Waived when you approve the repair |
| TV repair (board-level, 40–75") | $180 – $450 | Power boards, T-CON, main boards, backlight strips |
| Monitor repair | $120 – $280 | Power, backlight, panel-adjacent faults |
| Receiver / amplifier repair | $150 – $420 | Dead channels, protection mode, relays, inputs |
| Turntable service | $110 – $260 | Belts, cartridges, alignment, speed calibration |
| Printer repair | $110 – $240 | Feed rollers, fusers, print heads, network faults |
| Projector service | $150 – $380 | Lamps, filters, optics cleaning, alignment |
| POS terminal / receipt printer | $120 – $290 | On-site so you're not closed |
| Home theater / AV setup & calibration | $180 – $420 | Everything on one remote, picture actually calibrated |
How a job actually goes
- 1
Tell me what's wrong
Call, text a photo, or fill in the form. Photos of the model plate or the problem area cut the guesswork enormously.
- 2
Get a real price range
You get a range before I drive out, not after. If it's a job that needs a licensed contractor, I'll tell you that on the phone instead of wasting your time.
- 3
I show up in the window
You get a text when I'm on the way. Shoe covers, drop cloths, and the work area left cleaner than I found it.
- 4
Pay when it works
Flat price agreed up front. Card, Zelle, cash or check. Parts I install carry the manufacturer warranty and my labor is guaranteed for 90 days.
Questions people actually ask
Is it worth repairing a TV?
It depends entirely on which part failed. Power board, backlight strips, T-CON and main board failures are all worth repairing — typically $180–$450 on a set that costs $700–$1,500 to replace. A cracked or failed LCD/OLED panel is not, because the panel is most of the TV's cost. A photo of the screen behavior usually tells me which camp you're in before I drive out.
Do you repair TVs at my house?
Yes. Large TVs are awkward, fragile and often wall-mounted, so working on site avoids the two most likely moments of damage — taking it down and putting it back. Most board-level repairs are done in your living room in under two hours.
Can you fix my old stereo receiver?
Very likely. Dead channels, protection mode, scratchy controls, seized relays and dried capacitors are all standard, fixable faults on vintage gear, and it was designed to be serviced. Bring me the model number and I'll tell you what's typical for it. Speaker foam surround rot is also very repairable and much cheaper than replacing the speakers.
My printer says it's offline but it's plugged in.
Nine times out of ten that's a network problem rather than a printer fault — the printer got a new IP address from the router and the computer is still looking at the old one. The permanent fix is a reserved address on the router, which takes a few minutes and stops it recurring. Often bundled with a networking visit.
Do you work on business POS systems?
Yes — terminals, receipt printers, cash drawers, scanners and card readers, on site so you don't close. I'll also make sure your POS is on its own network segment, separated from guest Wi-Fi, which is both a security requirement and a reliability improvement.
What about game consoles and small electronics?
Consoles with overheating, disc drive, HDMI port or fan issues — yes. Phones and tablets with cracked screens — no, that's a specialist's bench work and there are good shops for it locally; I'll point you at one rather than fumble it.
How long does an electronics repair take?
If the part is common — power board capacitors, backlight strips, a belt, a fuser — often the same visit. Model-specific boards typically take 2–5 business days to source, and you're not charged for the part until it's installed and working.
What's your warranty on electronics repair?
90 days on labor and on any board or component I install. If the same fault recurs in that window, the return visit is free.
What neighbors say
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“Our Samsung fridge stopped cooling on a Friday. Armen came out the same afternoon, found a failed evaporator fan, and had it running before dinner. He showed me the old part and explained exactly what happened. No upsell, no drama.”
“Three-story townhouse with Wi-Fi that died on the top floor. He ran a hardwired access point instead of selling me another extender, and now I get full speed in every room. He labeled every cable in the closet too.”
“Four cameras around the house plus a doorbell, all on my phone. He walked the property with me first and moved two camera positions based on where our packages actually get dropped. Clean cable runs, nothing hanging.”
Home & Office Electronics Repair across Burbank and 25 miles
Based in Burbank, on the road every day across the east Valley, the Verdugos and the west San Gabriel Valley.