WOT: Problem with LCD TV

Former user wrote on 4/24/2010, 8:40 PM
This is way off topic, but I hope that someone here might have seen or heard of the issue I'm having with a 37" JVC LCD TV.

The following happens when I first turn on the TV and for about 20 to 30 minutes. The screen appears to be divided into 4 equal horizontal bands that are very high contrast and overly saturated, and appear to be delayed and smeared. Every so often one or more of the bands will resolve into perfectly normal video (from top to bottom) and will then revert the poor video (working it's way from the bottom of the screen to the top). This repeats every 30 seconds or so.

After a while the screen will finally settle down and will look fine as long as it stays turned on.

This started a few months ago. At first the problem would only last a few seconds, and it is now up to 30 minutes or more.

It's out of warranty and the nearest service center is over 100 miles from my house.

Anybody have any idea as to what this might be?

Thanks.

Jim

Comments

Former user wrote on 4/24/2010, 9:23 PM
Yep. I figure it's on the way towards completely crapping out. I read some suggested issues and it's probably the LCD panel and it would cost almost double what I paid for it in the first place to get it repaired.

It's a shame because not only did it cost $1000, it has a great picture (when it works). Well that the way it goes I guess -- I got 20 months out of it, so $50 a month "rent" and it becomes another lump in the landfill...

I still have a 27" CRT tv in the bedroom that is almost 20 years old, although it has a somewhat soft picture, it still works pretty well and only cost $300 brand new (and uses less energy than the 37" JCV).

I guess new doesn't automatically mean better.

Jim
musicvid10 wrote on 4/24/2010, 9:56 PM
It's out of warranty

That's the unfortunate reality of your situation.
A lawyer friend bought a plasma when they were $12,000. Fried 2 months out of warranty. Guess how much satisfaction he got from the manufacturer.

OTOH, I have a 27" CRT that I bought for $400 twenty years ago. Looks better than it ever did with a $40 ATSC tuner.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/25/2010, 5:09 AM
When my LCD TV broke I had several shops & the manufacture tell me that they're pretty much a waste to fix.

They got us by the gonads there, don't they? :eek:
Rob Franks wrote on 4/25/2010, 5:31 AM
"OTOH, I have a 27" CRT that I bought for $400 twenty years ago. Looks better than it ever did with a $40 ATSC tuner."

CRT's are bullet proof compared to stuff they're pumping out today. The only weak part on a CRT is the fly-back transformer which starts to show signs of weakness after about.... 10 or 15 YEARS

Sometimes I think we're heading back down the other side of the technology ladder and we're simply too dumb to see it.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/25/2010, 5:41 AM

"When my LCD TV broke I had several shops & the manufacture tell me that they're pretty much a waste to fix."

What a sad commentary that is!

Unfortunately, that's the way it is with most devices/applicances these days. If things aren't worth fixing, it makes you wonder if they were worth buying in the first place, especially at today's costs.

I clearly remember the tube TV we had at home back in the fifties. The TV repairman was a common visitor to our house--not often, but a couple of times a year. And it wasn't like the cost of repair was outrageous, because if it had been my dad would have said, "Then it'll stay broken."

Honestly, I can't remember the last time I paid to have something "repaired," outside of a car. Now it's "buy a new one."

"Sometimes I think we're heading back down the other side of the technology ladder and we're simply too dumb to see it."

Rob, I have that same thought a least once a week!


Rob Franks wrote on 4/25/2010, 5:53 AM
"Honestly, I can't remember the last time I paid to have something "repaired," outside of a car. Now it's "buy a new one."

Well to be absolutely fair, it's not just the advanced and sub mini surface technology that stamps out the "repair" idea... but also the economy.

In other (lesser) economies where the wages and such aren't so outrageously high, they still have lots of repair shops (and repair men) around. But in places like Canada... USA... etc, it simply makes more (economical) sense to throw it out and buy a new one.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/25/2010, 6:11 AM

Rob, my wife and I have a piece of furniture (originally part of a bedroom suit) that we inherited from my parents. It’s a night stand—solid maple—they bought when they got married.

If you take the drawer out and read the back, one of them wrote on it that it was 1937 and the price was 90 cents. That night stand is 73 years old! It has been refinished once, that I know of. It has outlasted all the other furniture my wife and I have bought since we got married 35 years ago.

It’s true… “They just don’t build ‘em like they used to.”


TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/25/2010, 10:19 AM
I'm one of the "fix it" types myself: I have things that should be dead but aren't. I won't let them. Even the computer I'm on right now: the "average person" would of trashed it & bought another because it's broken. I got it working again! Yeah, only $600, but I always tell people who say a few bucks more doesn't matter, give it to ME, it matters to me. :D