Plasma TV: suddenly no picture

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The power consumption of plasmas is a lot higher than LCDs, so if your electricity bill and/or global warming worry you, you might want to consider LCD.
 
plasma are bad for the environment (compared with LCD). I actually went with a dirt cheap Chinese knock-off called SonIQ. 42" LCD 1080. It was about 1/4 the price of Samsung and depending on which one you buy it's either Samsung or LG that will make the panel - I wasn't going to pay an extra $2000 to have the Samsung stamp. The only draw back is there is no optical audio out. Which isn't a concern for me because I mainly use it for PS3 or PC both of which I run through the amp. Oh, the remote is cheap which does suck - probably that's 100% Chinese.
 
Plazma Inferno! said:
No plasma. No LG.

Plasma has very short life span, and it's out of production. You'd get spots with faded colors all over the screen soon.

I had LG plasma and few other things manufactured by them. Plasma died in less than a year. LG is shitty brand.

Buy LCD. Picture quality isn't that great, but it's consistent quality.
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Now you tell us! Let us see how long this puppy lasts...
 
madanthonywayne said:
About three years ago my 32 inch Sony regular tube type TV began behaving poorly. The picture was quite dim and it took about 5 minutes to "warm up" before you'd get a picture. So we went out and bought a 42 inch Toshiba plasma TV as a replacement. I've loved it, until today. It was working perfectly this morning and now when we turn it on there is no picture. No picture whatsoever. There's sound, and the TV is getting power because the little power indicator turns green when you turn the TV on, but no fucking picture at all.

Oh, yeah. The regular tube type 32 inch Sony TV? It's in the basement. Still working just as it was when we bought this replacement (dim picture, long warmup time). But it beats no picture at all. This fuckin' thing is only 3 years old! What's the lifetime on these plasma TV's?

Any ideas out there? Perhaps there's some switch I could flip to turn the picture back on?
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that should teach you to buy foreign products.
 
That's why I bought a Samsung LCD over 1.5 years ago and it is working fine!

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madanthonywayne said:
So we went out and bought a 42 inch Toshiba plasma TV as a replacement.
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Toshiba hasn't been in the plasma game very long. Panasonic are the ones who have spent the R&D monies and the time to get it right.

Panasonic plasmas boast life expectancies now to be almost double LCD's. All the issues these tv's had earlier have been resolved by Panasonic, but most likely, not the other manufacturers.

Don't buy a plasma unless it's a Panasonic.
 
(Q) said:
Toshiba hasn't been in the plasma game very long.
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And they're already out of it! They no longer make plasma TV's.
Panasonic are the ones who have spent the R&D monies and the time to get it right.

Panasonic plasmas boast life expectancies now to be almost double LCD's. All the issues these tv's had earlier have been resolved by Panasonic, but most likely, not the other manufacturers.

Don't buy a plasma unless it's a Panasonic.
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D'oh! I've already bought a Samsung. Wish you'd chimed in earlier. Oh well.
 
madanthonywayne said:
And they're already out of it! They no longer make plasma TV's.
D'oh! I've already bought a Samsung. Wish you'd chimed in earlier. Oh well.
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Can't you return/exchange it after you buy? I have just bought a new laptop 2 days ago. As all other electronic products, here in Germany I am allowed to return it / to exchange it within 2 weeks.

p.s.: this is my first post with my new laptop, yayy
 
kmguru said:
Try to see if signal from a DVD palyer works. If not call Toshiba Technical Support. We just bought a 60" Plasma which has just one pixel that is flickering green very very bright...annoying as hell...
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This actually can be a problem, especially for those that use XBOX's. Microsoft originally had a number of complaints that their HDMI compatibility didn't work with certain screen models. So they generated a patch and that patch actually ended up frying my XBOX motherboard. What the patch actually did was rewrite the HDMI wrappers for the HDMI protocol because there were a couple of HDMI standards (Some screens were sold as HDMI Ready, others as just compatible)

It's possible with devices that can update drivers that these wrappers can be changed causing a screen to appear blank or even no sound. So it's best to test the screen using another input method (RGB/VGA etc)

As to the life expectancy of a screen, difficult to say what causing the main strain. The newer screens tend to have processor units to sharpen the HDMI input, and Plasma's usually have a high operating temperature. You'll probably find that if the screen is kept cooled and the vents aren't blocked by being placing the screen into a cavity like a cabinet that you'll have a longer life expectancy.
 
Yes, it is the room temperature. When cooled to 66 F, 3 pixels started flashing. Otherwise everything is fine. I was surprised to use the TV as a second monitor and yet the texts were crisp even a metre away. Now I planned to design a command center using that screen size.
 
and do what? Rocket launches? :D

PS : 60 inch is huge! u must be prince of baton rouge ;)

Rick
 
Nay! to control our economic crisis...or Mars landing? :D

60 inch is OK, we have a 72" DLP. IT pays good...you should know that....:D
 
S.A.M. said:
Always buy Sony TVs. In my experience, [I have owned 3 on three continents], nothing beats them for performance.
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Exactly, plus Sony has came down on their prices a lot. I can't understand how anyone can invest in any other brand. That's what I'm watching now, Sony Bravia XBR FTW!
 
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