The inlaws gave me this TV because it was "broken". So I'm trying to see if I can fix it for cheap and have a decent second HDTV in the house.
The problem doesn't seem to show up in any of the TV's menu systems. Although I never saw them before so I couldn't say with 100% certainty; it's possible maybe colors are off or something, but there doesn't seem to be any strange artifacts like there is with media content.
It seems that when there isn't a lot going on in the video it's not really noticable. For instance, I hooked my Popcorn Hour player to it. When the PCH goes into screen saver it has two boxes that bounce around the black screen. These look perfectly fine when they are displayed. But the still screen of any PCH menu's does show the problem.
There is an option to display an HD picture that is built into the set. And this also displays the same problem.
I've tried all HDMI inputs as well as one component and one composite input, they all show the same problem.
I've taken some pictures to better show the problem. They can't fully capture it as I don't have a great camera, but they give a good idea.
Link to Imageshack.us album with a few pictures in which you can see the effect:
http://img806.imageshack.us/g/img1795s.jpg/
I have next to zero knowledge of the inner workings, but if I had to guess I would say it seems like a video processor problem. I have found that there are some affordable parts on ebay for this TV, but I need to know which one I would need.
The problem doesn't seem to show up in any of the TV's menu systems. Although I never saw them before so I couldn't say with 100% certainty; it's possible maybe colors are off or something, but there doesn't seem to be any strange artifacts like there is with media content.
It seems that when there isn't a lot going on in the video it's not really noticable. For instance, I hooked my Popcorn Hour player to it. When the PCH goes into screen saver it has two boxes that bounce around the black screen. These look perfectly fine when they are displayed. But the still screen of any PCH menu's does show the problem.
There is an option to display an HD picture that is built into the set. And this also displays the same problem.
I've tried all HDMI inputs as well as one component and one composite input, they all show the same problem.
I've taken some pictures to better show the problem. They can't fully capture it as I don't have a great camera, but they give a good idea.
Link to Imageshack.us album with a few pictures in which you can see the effect:
http://img806.imageshack.us/g/img1795s.jpg/
I have next to zero knowledge of the inner workings, but if I had to guess I would say it seems like a video processor problem. I have found that there are some affordable parts on ebay for this TV, but I need to know which one I would need.
