katlyn57
08-02-2008, 05:23 PM
I have a Toshiba 46H84 that is only a couple of months over 2 years
old. It has been working just GREAT until about a week ago, that is.
With no warning whatsoever, the TV just turned off by itself. Just
before it went off the screen went to Blue and a light colored
yellow dot appeared in the middle. At this same time the "power"
button on the set startded blinking (red). I could not turn the set
off or on with the remote OR by pushing the button itself. I
unplugged the set, waited about five minutes. I then plugged it back
in, and turned it on by pushing the button on the set. It came on
just long enough to see the blue screen and a VERY faint picture
behind that blue. The dot had turned to black and then all of a
sudden the blue(and the picture) just vanished into the black dot
and the set clicked off. I have unplugged the set (as instructed by
Toshiba) and left it unplugged for up to five hours, just to plug it
in and the process starts all over.
Toshiba tells me they don't think it is the picture tube but have no
idea what it might be and OF COURSE, since the warranty is out for
two months now, they don't want to lend an opinion. This thing is
BIG and we live so far out in a rural area that the closest repair
is over 40 miles away and we can't afford to have a servive person
come that distance.
ANY SUGGESTIONS??? Other than THROWING IT OUT IN THE FIELD!!Would it be worth having fixed OR should we just
look into getting another set? What happened to Televisions lasting
over 20 years?? Are they all just "throw aways" now.
Frustrated in Paradise, Texas :sobbing:
old. It has been working just GREAT until about a week ago, that is.
With no warning whatsoever, the TV just turned off by itself. Just
before it went off the screen went to Blue and a light colored
yellow dot appeared in the middle. At this same time the "power"
button on the set startded blinking (red). I could not turn the set
off or on with the remote OR by pushing the button itself. I
unplugged the set, waited about five minutes. I then plugged it back
in, and turned it on by pushing the button on the set. It came on
just long enough to see the blue screen and a VERY faint picture
behind that blue. The dot had turned to black and then all of a
sudden the blue(and the picture) just vanished into the black dot
and the set clicked off. I have unplugged the set (as instructed by
Toshiba) and left it unplugged for up to five hours, just to plug it
in and the process starts all over.
Toshiba tells me they don't think it is the picture tube but have no
idea what it might be and OF COURSE, since the warranty is out for
two months now, they don't want to lend an opinion. This thing is
BIG and we live so far out in a rural area that the closest repair
is over 40 miles away and we can't afford to have a servive person
come that distance.
ANY SUGGESTIONS??? Other than THROWING IT OUT IN THE FIELD!!Would it be worth having fixed OR should we just
look into getting another set? What happened to Televisions lasting
over 20 years?? Are they all just "throw aways" now.
Frustrated in Paradise, Texas :sobbing:
