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Nothing that I said is false. Of course the pixels are sealed, that doesn't make them hermetic. It's physics. Gas will go from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. It can and does happen. That's why pixels on plasma's die. Furthermore, you can't recharge the sets, and I never claimed that you could.

Additionally, I never claimed that plasmas wear out, but rather they lose their brightness more quickly than other sets. It's demonstrable. About 1% for every 1,000 hours of viewing, which doesn't seem like much, and isn't perceptible to the person at home who sees it every day, but to someone from the outside viewing it against a new unit, there will be a large difference.

Here's the difference: LCD loses its brightness, you replace the backlight. Plasma loses brightness, you can't do anything about it.

That sucks.. That is what you get though for buying an off brand tv..

Buy Toshiba, Tosiba just sounds like it wouldn't work..

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Do you know any Tv repair people that might be able to look at it? DLP light engines don't look too complex to fix as long as the chip is fine.http://www.optomahometheater.com/howto/b2_1.asp

Seems a lot of problems with this type of tv.

http://www.fixya.com/support/t224933-light_engine
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/...Off0275629.htm

LCD backlighting degrades over time which skews color rendition.

And LCD backlights are replaceable.

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Some are. Depends on the manufacturer. It's a waste of time, money, and effort. I have yet to see an LCD that can keep up with a plasma. The plasma technology is inherently better than LCD, but the LCDers are busting their asses to keep up with plasma technology developed in 2001 (it's 2008/09 BTW). It's funny that the "energy consumption" issue has gone away. To get LCDs to 90% of the performance of a plasma their wattage has grown considerably. It's not the panel, it's the ICs required to produce the best picture.

I know of another incudent with Toshiba that is similar. I have a friend who has a computer shop, but he also works on TV's. He warned me against Toshiba as well. He has had dimilr issues with them. In particular, he has tried to fix Toshiba TV's in the past. But the parts are not done like most TV's. They won't sell an individual component that costs less. They will only sell one unit that contains multiple parts, for a ridiculous price that makes fixing the TV too expensive. He says he has ran into that issue over and over. He too warns people not to go with Toshiba. So take heed in this warning. I know I will..

Start a free website showing this tv on a table holding down the corner of some papers. Invite more people to do the same with busted electronics, then get all people, us included, to click and search for your site on google so that when people search for toshiba TV's your site comes up first. Think of it as a new "FAIL" style mockery of consumer goods. You could dress it up in a sheet and say its a dolly for your daughter and show her dragging it around the driveway playing with it :shrug:

Just get your point across in an entertaining manner. It will catch on.


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I have a checy and the sunroof broke on it. Well, not the sunroof, but a metal (pot metal) hook that holds the bug/wind shield broke. I went about 6 months without getting it fixed, but it was under warranty so I decided to get it done. Went in and told them, showed them the broken hook and asked how many minutes it would take to replace the little guy. They look it up and looked pissed/confused. Apparently GM wont sell the $.45 piece of metal, you have to order then entire sunroof kit, all $350 worth of it, including the glass. They then have to take down your entire ceiling and remove the entire old sunfoor and install the other roof kit to replace any part that is busted on it. It was there for 7 hours of labor to replace this ****ing hook that is 1 inch long, would have cost me well over $600 including labor and parts.... GM really has their shit together.

For the record, JB Weld wouldn't hold strong enough.