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Originally Posted by crazyjr
I know this is not a tech forum for this, but similar questions have been asked before. Last year my sister bought a sanyo LCD 48" TV, It has been a great TV but today it did something wierd. According to my bro in law, he turned it on and it showed only half a picture, It wasn't overheating, because it had only been running an hour that morning for kids cartoons. When it was turned on later it was OK, no sign of anything wrong, they continued to run it just to see if it would do it again, but nothing. To anyone with LCD experience, What caused this problem? And, Is it a sign of a failing product? Hate to think, after a year, this product is failing and in need of repair
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The actual "picture" of a LCD TV appears in a thin semi transparent layer. This layer does not emit any light of it's own.
The actual light is behind this, in the form of a series of small diameter flourescent tubes.
Inside your TV, there is a "starter"/management circuit for the backlighting. It sounds like you had a bad connection for half the backlighting, that was only temporary.
I would say, odds are, it could happen again.