i have been told to replace the capacitors?

There will be several hundred capacitors in your TV - you do not say why you need to replace capacitors but I would guess a power supply fault perhaps.

There is no point in replacing a working capacitor - just a defective one - although capacitors usually cost pennies.

Google Images Capacitor will show you several different types.

The unit of capacitance is the Farad - often Microfarad or uF - Capacaitors in PSUs are often Electrolytic and have to be put in the right way round Plus & Minus. They sometimes have a Voltage rating - 10V means OK for up to 10 volts and some have a temperature rating in degrees C.

Here's a link to a picture of some bulging capacitors in a power supply I think...

http://www.facilitateit.com.au/images/Bulging_capacitors.jpg

You will need to be confident with soldering and unsoldering and given your original question - what do capacitors look like - I would suspect thaat you may do best to have someone do it for you.

Good luck...

Peccavi
November 2009

I suggest you look up an electronics website (RS, digikey) and search for capacitors. there are several different varieties and then you need to match your capacitors value which will be written on it somewhere.

Jmmy
November 2009