TC-P50GT50 won't turn on

[Moreno83]

Re: TC-P50GT50 won't turn on

The other boards in the tv won't blow the HDMI. HDMI is most of the times blown by power surge.

If a for example dreambox/x-box/cable box is getting a surge it can take the tv with them.

Could just be your cable that keeps killing the mainboard.

[jrobie79]

Re: TC-P50GT50 won't turn on

The other boards in the tv won't blow the HDMI. HDMI is most of the times blown by power surge.

If a for example dreambox/x-box/cable box is getting a surge it can take the tv with them.

Could just be your cable that keeps killing the mainboard.

Everytime it's happened I've never had anything but my cable box plugged into an HDMI port. I had an old super nintendo hooked up once, but that was with the old school component cables - it's not an HDMI source. I guess it would be cheap insurance to change the cables - are there recommended brands? It was my understanding that all HDMI cables were more or less identical - transmitting digital signals so none of the analog cable technology mattered.