So heres the deal, I have called every repair shop and sales stores
and i am getting really sick of people shrugging their shoulders and
making a comment like "Have you tried turning off and then turning
back on your TV?"

The plasma tv is a 42xbr900. That is the unit that is about 4-5 years
old and requires a seperate sony media box.

Just off center to the left is a verticle bar about 3 in width. The
top half of the bar is white, the bottom half of the bar is black with
flashing green pixels. It does not matter which source I am on.

I can email a picture to anyone to see, unless someone knows how to
post a photo.

You can email me at

ANY IDEAS of what could be wrong and approximate cost? I am fairly
electronics saavy, let me know if this is something I can fix myself.

wrote in message
...
So heres the deal, I have called every repair shop and sales stores
and i am getting really sick of people shrugging their shoulders and
making a comment like "Have you tried turning off and then turning
back on your TV?"

The plasma tv is a 42xbr900. That is the unit that is about 4-5 years
old and requires a seperate sony media box.

Just off center to the left is a verticle bar about 3 in width. The
top half of the bar is white, the bottom half of the bar is black with
flashing green pixels. It does not matter which source I am on.

I can email a picture to anyone to see, unless someone knows how to
post a photo.

You can email me at

ANY IDEAS of what could be wrong and approximate cost? I am fairly
electronics saavy, let me know if this is something I can fix myself.


I'd fix it with a hammer. No joke, thats probably the only soloution.
These new technology TVs and monitors don't have much you can fix in them.

Mike

On Nov 15, 2:23 pm, wrote:
So heres the deal, I have called every repair shop and sales stores
and i am getting really sick of people shrugging their shoulders and
making a comment like "Have you tried turning off and then turning
back on your TV?"

The plasma tv is a 42xbr900. That is the unit that is about 4-5 years
old and requires a seperate sony media box.

Just off center to the left is a verticle bar about 3 in width. The
top half of the bar is white, the bottom half of the bar is black with
flashing green pixels. It does not matter which source I am on.

I can email a picture to anyone to see, unless someone knows how to
post a photo.

You can email me at

ANY IDEAS of what could be wrong and approximate cost? I am fairly
electronics saavy, let me know if this is something I can fix myself.

Unless you have an osciloscope and a schematic to check to see what is
going on internally in the circuits driving thei display, I think an
accident is about the best solution to your problem.

H. R.(Bob) Hofmann

The fault is in the main processor drivers, or the crosspoint pixel drivers
on the backside of the screen.

These sets are service using board swapping to test. Then the defective
boards that are replaced, are set up to properly match each other.

In the service procedure, it would be impossible to go through the TV set
without the proper factory test and diagnostics equipment. These TV sets are
extremely sophisticated.

More than likely your set will be too costly to service. If it is more than
5 year old, I have my doubts that Sony will even have parts availability.



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JANA
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wrote in message
...
So heres the deal, I have called every repair shop and sales stores
and i am getting really sick of people shrugging their shoulders and
making a comment like "Have you tried turning off and then turning
back on your TV?"

The plasma tv is a 42xbr900. That is the unit that is about 4-5 years
old and requires a seperate sony media box.

Just off center to the left is a verticle bar about 3 in width. The
top half of the bar is white, the bottom half of the bar is black with
flashing green pixels. It does not matter which source I am on.

I can email a picture to anyone to see, unless someone knows how to
post a photo.

You can email me at

ANY IDEAS of what could be wrong and approximate cost? I am fairly
electronics saavy, let me know if this is something I can fix myself.

We had a similar problem with our 43" Sony LCD. We found out that it
was a known problem with this model and were referred to a Sony site
which I can't find now, Anyhow call Sony at this number:
1-800-222-7669
Sony covered the full cost of the $1100 repair. Our TV was 1 year out
of warranty, but since it was a known problem, they covered it.










On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:12:38 -0500, "JANA"
wrote:

The fault is in the main processor drivers, or the crosspoint pixel drivers
on the backside of the screen.

These sets are service using board swapping to test. Then the defective
boards that are replaced, are set up to properly match each other.

In the service procedure, it would be impossible to go through the TV set
without the proper factory test and diagnostics equipment. These TV sets are
extremely sophisticated.

More than likely your set will be too costly to service. If it is more than
5 year old, I have my doubts that Sony will even have parts availability.

"MrManuals" wrote in message
...

We had a similar problem with our 43" Sony LCD. We found out it
was a known problem with this model and were referred to a Sony
site which I can't find now, Anyhow call Sony at this number:
1-800-222-7669
Sony covered the full cost of the $1100 repair. Our TV was 1 year
out of warranty, but since it was a known problem, they covered it.

Hard to believe. Sony has a bad reputation for customer satisfaction (with
respect to problem resolution).

MrManuals wrote:
We had a similar problem with our 43" Sony LCD. We found out that it
was a known problem with this model and were referred to a Sony site
which I can't find now, Anyhow call Sony at this number:
1-800-222-7669
Sony covered the full cost of the $1100 repair. Our TV was 1 year out
of warranty, but since it was a known problem, they covered it.

You must not have had any dust in it.
http://consumerist.com/consumer/sony...nty-321226.php

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