Help - problem with my flatscreen TV

[Tsuyu]

Help - problem with my flatscreen TV

Help!

I think my awesome flatscreen tv is broken! In the upper and lower left corner I'm starting to get these "spots" of "green light", as if you pointed a flashlight at the corners or something. It's barely visible when the screen is bright, but when it turns darker (especially if it turns black in night scenes, for example) these spots are very noticable and annoying!

Did I break it somehow?

Can't think of anything.. :'(

 

[sfroggy1]

Re: Help!

Not too sure but found this so maybe it will help:

Make sure you have a high definition (720p/1080p) signal; otherwise corrupted EEPROM chip. To prove it place the unit into 4:3 and see if the green dots shift.

 

[Tsuyu]

Re: Help!

I really have no idea what that's about, I'm afraid. Doesn't seem to have too advanced settings on this, from what I can see.

I'd really appreciate the effort though, this is annoying the crap outta me.

 

[Tsuyu]

Re: Help - problem with my flatscreen TV

It is either a plasma or LCD TV. I don't rightly know as it was given to me as a gift, and it only says Samsung on it.

The strange thing is that the spot(s) are on the left side of the display and I have the sub-woofer from my sound system on the right side without any interferance. I've also moved my 360 and other electronics further away from the TV and checked so there are no cords or anything near the spot.

 

[Purple Nurple]

Re: Help - problem with my flatscreen TV

If it's a Plasma it might be image burn. If it's an LCD the crystals might have broken, it's happened to my friend before.

 

[Tsuyu]

Re: Help - problem with my flatscreen TV

Just looked it up; it is an LCD TV. Hmm... if it were dead crystals, wouldn't they show no colour at all? I've also discovered that the spot(s) only appear green if looked upon from a downward angle. If looked upon from above they appear as a darkened area.

 

[Skotekal]

Re: Help - problem with my flatscreen TV

Umm... Probably wrong, but it might be backlight leakage? Not sure though. Once you said darkened it sounded like what a friend of mine had.