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dogfacedboy uk1
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How long did you have it mate, I am investing in a nice 3d flatscreen next year come bonus time, still have an old two feet thick one lol.
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dogfacedboy uk1
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not long then, I have had two tvs with triple that lifespan. i wonder if it is common for a flatscreen to die so soon. Guess I better google that before I spend a pile of money on one.
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freakinacage
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think of the positive side, you can get a nice new big one now!
Einion
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Hate that! Sucks especially if it's just out of warranty.
I'm not sure if it's economical but there's a decent chance it is fixable, since it's likely (90%+) the motherboard or power board that's gone and they're available as spare parts.
Einion
I'm not sure if it's economical but there's a decent chance it is fixable, since it's likely (90%+) the motherboard or power board that's gone and they're available as spare parts.
Not especially, but the sudden failure to power up is usually the problem.dogfacedboy uk1 said:
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atacam
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Did you know under the slaes of goods act, in teh UK you actually have up to 6 years after purchase?
For up to six years after purchase (five years from discovery in Scotland) purchasers can demand damages (which a court would equate to the cost of a repair or replacement).
Here is a link to the sales of goods act.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives....whatwedo/consumers/fact-sheets/page38311.html
http://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/wor...es-us-6-years-to-claim-for-faulty-appliances/
This should help.
Also depending what you want a tv for is depending whether you should get plasma or lcd.
General rules. under 32 inch LCD
Gaming mostly LCD
watching films/tv Plasma.
I personally wouldn't get a 3D TV, this will phase out very soon, just as soon as Hollywood realise their 3D films are crap.
Elly3438
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I'm curious, what do you mean by white wash?
cassar
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most plasma tvs have a function on the control panel which stops image burn, plasma is hot and say you leave an image paused for any length of time on the screen it will leave an after image the whitewash function runs the screen but totally blank you just leave it for an hour or so and it cleans yer pixels there are i think 3 or 4 ways to clean it just cant name them all off the top of my head hold up ill take a look go to option then factory mode then mine gives me 4 ISM's normal, orbiter, inversion and whitewash. its just a way of cleaning ghost images from the screen and helps stop you burning pixels.
10 ball
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The TV lives! Einion you are correct my friend, looks like it was the power board and will cost £80 to fix.
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gsr15
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You might be able to save yourself some cash and fix it yourself, it's actually not that tough especially if you're just replacing the entire board and can find one on ebay etc. The monitor I'm using right now crapped out two years ago because they used cheap caps on the power board...$3 worth of new (and better) caps, and an hour later all was back to normal, hardest part was just getting the damn case open to get at the guts. Replacing the entire board would have been even easier, just one or two connectors, no soldering involved.
It's a common Samsung LCD thing, after roughly three and a half years their condensators burn and they just stand there doing a clicking sound instead of fully powering up. Every repairshop knows about this and on some models Samsung has even extended their guarantee towards exactly this. It happened to me almost a year ago so I talked to a few friends who work at repairshops and they all said the same thing. Luckily it was darn cheap to fix and I had to wait as long as almost a full two hours for it to be done.
