We rescued this TV from our friend who planned to send it to the dump. It seems like it must be something simple, and while my husband is handy with fixing things, nothing seemed the obvious problem (and neither one of us has any experience with LCD issues).
So here's what we've found - plugged in, switched on, the TV sometimes clearly displays "Input 4" or 6 or whatever, more often white lines that are made by the shape of said characters "smeared" vertically across the whole screen like this:
When we first brought it home, after leaving it on a while, it got a reddish-orange "sunset" look across the better part of the screen, but I was unable to get it to do that again today - so I'm guessing maybe it was on TV input and showing some kind of signal? Also, at one point we managed to get some kind of menu up but it was mis-aligned and running off the top of the screen and wrapping around to the bottom - I was unable to figure out how we got there today.
We don't have a remote, and pressing buttons at top generally doesn't do much, but the input button does seem to change things sometimes - I've seen input 4 and 6 today as I was fiddling with the TV. After pressing the input button, sometimes the lines will change and fade or shift colors like below:
At one point, I had the tv on and was videotaping to show what happens when the buttons are pressed (or lack thereof) and I pushed the TV to get a better angle and the "Input #" lines went to crisp clear lettering - does that indicate something that is loose?
Thanks in advance for any guidance you can give - I sure would love to save this puppy from the landfill (and wouldn't mind having a nice 32" LCD for whatever it costs to fix!)
So here's what we've found - plugged in, switched on, the TV sometimes clearly displays "Input 4" or 6 or whatever, more often white lines that are made by the shape of said characters "smeared" vertically across the whole screen like this:
When we first brought it home, after leaving it on a while, it got a reddish-orange "sunset" look across the better part of the screen, but I was unable to get it to do that again today - so I'm guessing maybe it was on TV input and showing some kind of signal? Also, at one point we managed to get some kind of menu up but it was mis-aligned and running off the top of the screen and wrapping around to the bottom - I was unable to figure out how we got there today.
We don't have a remote, and pressing buttons at top generally doesn't do much, but the input button does seem to change things sometimes - I've seen input 4 and 6 today as I was fiddling with the TV. After pressing the input button, sometimes the lines will change and fade or shift colors like below:
At one point, I had the tv on and was videotaping to show what happens when the buttons are pressed (or lack thereof) and I pushed the TV to get a better angle and the "Input #" lines went to crisp clear lettering - does that indicate something that is loose?
Thanks in advance for any guidance you can give - I sure would love to save this puppy from the landfill (and wouldn't mind having a nice 32" LCD for whatever it costs to fix!)
I have a fixed LC-32D44E to watch here now (until I sell it) and it's pretty good for a 720p 32" display. It's unfortunate they do have tab bond issues.
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