Re: Vertical black bar on Samsung PN50A450P1DXZA

Hi all, I also unfortunately have come across this PDP failure: first one "segment" then three unlit. It initially starts with a top flicker, then then whole segment is affected and random colored lines appear distorting the image. Touching the affected IC (on the flat cable) reveals and very hot IC respect to others indicating something has shorted. My model was a 50" 50A456 model, about 7 years old. Defect came up suddenly and in a few hours the whole segment was dead and the next one was affected too.