Vizio plasma red and blue vertical lines

[Cosmo66]

Where would you begin trouble shooting this TV? Unfortunately, I've been told by a friend it's almost certainly a bad panel

Model number is vp42hdtv10A

Anyone have any input?

[tom66]

Re: Vizio plasma red and blue vertical lines

It does look like a bad panel.

It is POSSIBLE that it is a loose connector, usually you tend to see singe lines or whole black bars with bad panels.

[Cosmo66]

Re: Vizio plasma red and blue vertical lines

No possibility that it's a failing buffer?

[tom66]

Re: Vizio plasma red and blue vertical lines

The buffers for the horizontal are bonded onto the panel. There is no replacing them. Likely the failure is on those. There are boards such as C1, C2, C3 (sometimes named differently) but these just distribution boards. There's very little stuff on them that goes wrong.