Problems started a few months ago when a vertical line started appearing. Not visible during some screen colors/movements. A second line appeared about a month later. Two weeks after that the TV died. Power cycled and it would flash and a brief sound would come out then the blue power light would flash (five times). TV was re-set and re-powered and same flash and blue flashing. Protection mode I guess. I pretty sure the Hitachi heard me ordering a new Samsung while it was working and decided to die early.
OK, pulled the rear cover and snapped a few photos, inspected the caps and surprisingly...

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Greetings All!
Just a general all around geek here.
Former IT guy that likes to take things apart and fix them.
Current project is a dead 2008 Hitachi P50X902.
Started by fixing my older Gateway (Faroudja) 24" monitors.
I see lots of smart guys here so I'll just sponge for a while.