May 17, 2011

• It's Enough To Make A Preacher Cuss

  I have long believed that battery manufactures, especially auto batterys, have made a science of draining a battery so that if it was rated for 24-months it would last exact 24-months and one day, or maybe a week, before dying.  Now I find that some manufactures of electronic products appear to have made some headway in doing the same.

  On May 9th 2008, I purchased a brand new 42" 1080 HD LCD flat-screen television.  It had the standard 1-yr parts and labor warrantee from the manufacturer.  Since it was an expensive purchase of what was then a new technology, I protected myself with an extended warrantee that ran for 24-months from the end of the manufacturer's standard warrantee.  That being the case, the extended warrantee ran from May 9th 2009 through May 9th 2011. 

  You know what's coming next.  Yep!  On May 11th 2011, 2-days after the warrantee expired, my expensive HDTV decided that it was time to quit.  I have not been able to get it to turn on since then.  Yes there is power at the plug; in fact, the red power standby LED on the television is lit.  And when I hit the power-on button on either the remote or on the set itself, the LED goes from red to green, indicating a power-up process in the works.  The trouble is that the LED immediately goes back to red.  It will not complete the power-up cycle.

  Talk about being pissed!  I really don't want to have to buy a new television.  Has anyone else had this problem, and does any one have any idea how this "glitch" can be overcome.  I was thinking that maybe an accumulation of dust or cat hair inside the set might be shorting out the process.  Should I take the back off and try to dust the circut card -- after unplugging the set, of course, and letting any residual charge bleed off?

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