The color has gone out of my picture polarized look

My 3-year old 52-inch Toshiba flat panel TV (Model # 52RV53U, Serial # AM409000295) developed a display problem (purchased Aug. 2008, manufactured July 2008). Vertical multicolored lines appeared on the screen just left of center. The band of thin vertical bars is 5.5 inches wide. The lines are about 1/16-inch wide. They are stationary, always exactly in same place. They over-ride any other picture on the screen (no transparency). They are there all time even with no video inputs to the TV after the unit is turned on. See picture #1. The TV works well in every other respect, but, obviously, it is annoying to watch the picture with the color band blocking about 1/6 of the picture.

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I already swapped out the TCON board with no improvement and replugged the TCON board cables with no improvement.

Most likely it is the flat panel tab bond failure (panel made by Samsung). Further resolution updates will be on my Facebook page.

Yes, this problem is fixable.
Replace convergence out chips on D board of tv to fix the color separation issue.

Need the model number to help as I am not sure of you have a RCA or a Toshiba

this is fixable, normally it is caused by a capacitor or an ic, but it is fixable

the prism has gone bad, you need a new light engine.

Call a good TV Tech and have him replace the color wheel assembly.

I am assuming it goes all the way across and is black ?
It sounds like a scan line in one of the chips inside has gone bad or needs to be resoldered. Most likely needs the board replaced by a tech.
Hope this helps
Scott

Philips 50 inch plasma tv no video but has sound

Problem solved. I tried playing DVD and the TV picture was fine. So I double-checked cable wires from cable box - one of the wires was loose (obviously it was the red color input). After tightening, the TV picture is good as new.

Vertical IC outputs , vertical Capacitors are most like the culprit on your deflection panel. good luck