Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

[pentium]

Picked it up for free. Really nice unit and it even has an HDMI port but alas, there was a reason it was free...



There is that nasty yellow ring in the middle of the screen. I'm getting reports it's something ranging from dust to a cooked LCD.
Regardless, it's nasty and it would be soo much better to use this over my other TV with a case of the greens.
If it's too expensive, I'll move it outside to the curb as my roommates won't appreciate it.

[pentium]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

:/

It didn't post the other image.

[kc8adu]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

common issue and i hear there is a number to call to hitachi where they will send the blue panel free.

[pentium]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

Ooh! That would be awesome if I got a free replacement.
I'll poke arund Hitachi Canada and see if they come up with anything but if anyone knows the number, I would like to know it.

[moddolicous]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

I think this is what you are looking for:

http://www.hitachi.ca/contact_support/index.html

"For consumer products support in Canada, call 1-800-HITACHI"

[pentium]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

Well fuck you too Hitachi.
No. the best I got from tech support was "well I hope you didn't pay too much for it" and the address of a repair shop which will fix it at full-cost.

[weirdlookinguy]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

Remind Me by Royksopp.

One of my favorite videos of all time.

[pentium]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

Uh, yeah, I agree it's a nice song.

Wait, why did you randomly blurt that out?

[weirdlookinguy]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

The song is OK, it's the video that I think is excellent.

I blurted it out because its the video playing on the screen in the second screenshot you posted.

[pentium]

Re: Hitachi 50V525E - Yellow ring

Oh. I see now.
Yeah, I called again and they are not helping at all (and I must say they are pretty rude when they conclude the issue with me). Looks like it's staying this way.