Plasma TV problem, UPDATED
 

I Have a 42 inch Samsung plasma and have been getting a blue ash on the left side that is about 2 inches wide and is the full length of the left side. I only see it when the tv transitions from black to white. It is their if I switch to HD, DVD and comcast. What do you think it might be? I never let it on for a long period, I dont play video games and I never let it sit on a still images. If it is the TV I will be highly PO!

how long have you had it. we havent had our 42" samsung for that long and it needed a new bulb. ours is DLP though.

Almost six months old so I still have the factory warranty.

i started gettin that in all 4 corners of mine when i had it, i didnt know what it was so i just sold it before it got any worse and got a new tv, i must say though that ive heard nothing but good things about sumsungs tvs, that was what i got after the plasma...but i got a much bigger dlp this time

if you didnt buy a warranty, id do the same thing totheix's did, its only going to get worse. i doubt it will go away. plasmas are delicate, i dont like them for that reason only.

No way that is BS! I didnt spend 2K for a POS!

do you have large speakers next to the tv?

use the warranty and get new bulbs for it. we got ours under warranty. we might even get a few more before the warranty is up so that we have a stock of bulbs

I have Bose but they are over 3 feet away on each side and lower than the TV. If you are you thinkin magnets they aren't close enough but I can see where you are coming from. I am really looking to have some pin-point info on this when I call Samsung!

samsung has some really good answers on their website. check it out.

Thats more of a tube problem


This sounds like a bad panel call samsung nowwwwwwwww.

I don't have much more info than was already offered, but good luck clearing this **** up.

Well, I just put in a service request on Samsungs website and they are sending out a field service tech to repair in home. If this goes smooth I will have nothing to be PO at!

Ive had my plasma for a year, and about 3 months ago it started leaving a yellow line 4 inches from the right side all the way up and down the screen. WTF it pisses me off $2200

Moral of the story don't buy a samsung just my opinion.

Yeah thanks for your input

I am not trying to be an ass i have just heard alot of people having problems with them. Sorry if yuo took it as me being mean.

Its cool, I just heard Samsung and LG made good plasmas for the money. I guess now I will find out if they stand behind their product. Sometimes that is just as good as the actual product being sold:thumbup:

This is true well i hope it gets fixed let us all know how it goes.

Panasonic 50'' Plasma FTW, The family just got one for the family room. I have a Polaroid 42'' Plasma in my Bedroom and the difference is night and day between the two.

What brand and from what I read yellow was not a symptom of pixel failure, it was either blue, green or red lines/dots, wierd:screwy:

I have a 50 inch magnavox plasma.. no problems.

Its a HDTV Magnavox.

i bought a 42 inch samsung plasma the week before christmas, no problems so far....what model did you buy?

I think the problem that you are having is called "Light Leak," and I don't think it's fixable.

We'll find out Monday when the service tech comes out. I'll post up what it was along with the model number of the TV.

we have a 65" plasma here at work and we were testing it before installing it and we noticed a distortion in it, you could see that it wasn't rendering the image correctly. We returned it. basically like another person said. plasmas are very delicate and can get screwed up easily. I mean all we did was open this up, and put it on our work bench and hooked a progressive scan DVD to it and it didn't work right. def sucks. In my experience working with these things on a daily basis, panasonic's and NEC's are by far the most reliable.

as you stated samsung is good "for the money". but that doesn't mean they are good. sorry you are havign troubles and sorry I can't give you much more insight into it, we don't repair plasmas. we just sell and install them.

oh and once i get down doing my companies web site i'll be a proud new owner of a
PRO-FHD1
Elite® 50" 1080p PureVision® Plasma Monitor

50” Diagonal / 16:9 Wide-Screen Aspect Ratio
Progressive Image Reproduction (Full 1920 x 1080p)
ISFTM CCC Video Calibration

boooyay!

i think my posts are ghost like...always ignorred!

which model samsung did you buy?

thats what happens when you are wingless

i prefer to call it stealth mode!

HP-S4253, and I was at work

i bought the same one....

My friend used to deal in tv's on a national level and he told me to stay away from plasmas for a while. I have a 51" hitachi projection hdtv and a 32 Lcd. I like hitachi cause they make most of the other guys parts. Samsung makes good stuff...every brand will have problems..the real difference is in how the manufacturer takes care of you. I would think samsung will take care of you on it.

Samsung is replacing with a BRAND NEW tv. Guy will be here to swap it out within 7 days! Tech said it was the panel and needs to be replaced. Samsung FTMFW.

im a huge fan of samsung. glad it worked out for you. i love my 22" widescreen PC monitor and my dads samsung hdtv looks down right amazing. glad it got resolved

yea i love samsung i have a syncmaster 17 lcd monitor for my desktop and i love it, from all of the problems ive heard about plasma i think im either gonna get and lcd, one of those projectors or dlp, just cause i like to play a lot of games and such so a plasma would be a very bad choice for me

Glad to hear it worked out...that is a prime example of the difference in companies...its not about the problem so much as how they handled it.