Tom, I prefer Plasma to LCD for the Black Levels. The new larger LCDs also contain fans just like the Plasma's do but my Sony is ultra quiet. I didnt even know mine had fans til I popped it open.
Well guys, as of 2:25AM I now know what the problem is. It appears there is one of those ancient carmel colored plastic ribbons that connects the screen to the board at one junction that is the sole propietor of the annoyance. There is about 6 of these junctions all along the bottom of a typical Plasma television. It would appear that when I was flexing the case I was making the contact complete and not until I disconnected one of those things completely in a little impromptu test did I realize what they did. I basically disconnected one and an entire set of about 15 rows of pixels went nuts.
So now Im going to try to fix it once and for all. I may come out of this either spending nothing but my time, or maybe a small circuit board which the ribbon cable attaches to.
Well guys, as of 2:25AM I now know what the problem is. It appears there is one of those ancient carmel colored plastic ribbons that connects the screen to the board at one junction that is the sole propietor of the annoyance. There is about 6 of these junctions all along the bottom of a typical Plasma television. It would appear that when I was flexing the case I was making the contact complete and not until I disconnected one of those things completely in a little impromptu test did I realize what they did. I basically disconnected one and an entire set of about 15 rows of pixels went nuts.
So now Im going to try to fix it once and for all. I may come out of this either spending nothing but my time, or maybe a small circuit board which the ribbon cable attaches to.
