Based on my limited past experience along with other reports this is a common problem with Samsung (and possibly other brands of) TVs. When turning the TV ON, it takes a long time and seems to cycle through various peculiar states before it will operate properly. I've also had this same problem with a slightly older Samsung 40" HDTV. In the prior case, it was pretty easily repaired by replacing blown out capacitors on, what I think, is called the Power Supply Board. In that prior case the bad capacitors were pretty easy to identify by swelling that was conspicuous on the top of cylindrical...

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Greetings! Just found this site when looking for explanation of some strange findings when I thought replacing "Bad Caps" would provide a simple solution to a previously experienced problem. However, it turned out NOT to be so simple and now I could use some help from folks who really know what they are doing. Who knows someday maybe I'll also be able to provide some help.