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image on tv goes green

I have a large Samsung DLP that has started to ocassionally flash to black outlines on a bright green screen. It looks almost like a solarized photograph. This occurs independent of source - both on DVD/blue-ray and on satellite TV.

This might occur once in five or ten hours and might last 5 to 20 seconds.

Any tech types out there have a guess as to what's going on here.

Thanks in advance.

Marty
martykl
mceljo
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I have a Samsung DLP so I'm interested in what you find out. Mines an LED, is yours? I have not had this happen and I've had my TV for three or four years I would guess.

I know the bulbs can fail and need to be replaced, but don't know what happens when one fails.
baffled
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My 6 or 7 year old 56" Samsung DLP gets a green pattern that looks like tribal graphics. This happens once or twice a day. Since I am old school, I give the back of the tv a good slap and it resolves the problem for a while. This set might have 500 hours on it max.
I am curious to know if my tv has the same problem as Marty's.
martykl OP
3,578 posts
 
Mceljo,

It's just about to turn 6 yrs old - so maybe +/- 2,500 hours on the clock. Not sure of the light source, but I have replaced a "Lamp/Color Wheel" module once - so maybe it's a lamp, but maybe it's an LED set that gets referred to as a "lamp". Either way, that should reset the lamp life.

Baffled, if your "tribal graphics" are black lines against a glowing neon green, I'd guess we're talking the about same deal.

No guesses, anyone?

Marty
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