psychotropic
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On Friday, my Plasma appeared to die. It was not showing a picture. Some vertical white lines and some red mist appeared for a few seconds on powering on, and then the picture completely disappeared, while sound continued to work perfectly. Registered a complaint with Samsung (through the dealer, who is an acquaintance) and the Samsung engineer came today (sunday) and we powered on the TV and it worked, perfectly. For those unfamiliar with Christian mythology, Jesus is supposed to have died on a friday and come back to life on a sunday.
Would anyone have any idea why I experienced what I did, and what I can do to prevent it from happening again? Couple of points that I must mention here:
- My maid cleans the TV once in a way, possibly with a damp cloth. I have a theory that perhaps it was some moisture that affected whatever and then upon the moisture evaporating it returned to functioning properly. I will put an end to this practice, and take over cleaning of the plasma myself.
- Whenever a tubelight is switched on in the same room as the TV, or the doorbell rings (same room, living room), the TV picture blinks for a moment. This is something that we've always told ourselves we need to get checked, but never did. Need to get to the bottom of this. I am thinking this is something to do with the wiring in the house....any ideas?
I'd like the knowledgeable forum members to let me know their theories on this.
Also, I had one scary thought about owning a Samsung plasma. MY dealer who contacted Samsung, told me that there is a shortage of spares for last year's Samsung plasma TVs, and this might be an issue. This company, while making excellent plasma TVs, doesn't seem to care too much about that (plasma) segment of the market, and this "cannot find spares" story might repeat itself. This could be one factor to keep in mind while deciding between a Samsung and plasmas from other companies. A Panasonic I would imagine, would always have spares for their plasmas, since their thrust area is plasma.
Would anyone have any idea why I experienced what I did, and what I can do to prevent it from happening again? Couple of points that I must mention here:
- My maid cleans the TV once in a way, possibly with a damp cloth. I have a theory that perhaps it was some moisture that affected whatever and then upon the moisture evaporating it returned to functioning properly. I will put an end to this practice, and take over cleaning of the plasma myself.
- Whenever a tubelight is switched on in the same room as the TV, or the doorbell rings (same room, living room), the TV picture blinks for a moment. This is something that we've always told ourselves we need to get checked, but never did. Need to get to the bottom of this. I am thinking this is something to do with the wiring in the house....any ideas?
I'd like the knowledgeable forum members to let me know their theories on this.
Also, I had one scary thought about owning a Samsung plasma. MY dealer who contacted Samsung, told me that there is a shortage of spares for last year's Samsung plasma TVs, and this might be an issue. This company, while making excellent plasma TVs, doesn't seem to care too much about that (plasma) segment of the market, and this "cannot find spares" story might repeat itself. This could be one factor to keep in mind while deciding between a Samsung and plasmas from other companies. A Panasonic I would imagine, would always have spares for their plasmas, since their thrust area is plasma.
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