My Akai PT5598HDIX rear projection TV has been working fine for the past 3+ years. I had it on this morning (it was fine), then turned it on again a few hours later, and the screen is now "bowed" (like a bow tie) and the convergence is off at everypoint but center. You can see the three images (Red, Blue and Green) of the same picture simultaneously offset and overlapping one another on all sides. [Icalled] The Customer Care Center suggests that I call the local TV Repair shop to have someone look at it, but I think there should be a way to fix it myself (remotely). I have retreived and recorded (on paper) all of the menu settings (using Mute, 1, 8, 2, power) and then tried the "reset" function with no success. Any ideas?
The problem is the EW cicuit of the deflection cicuit. this is a component level repair call a tech. the EW or East West correction is apart of the horizontal deflection. IC431 is the pin amp.
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same problem after 3 years of use. HELP!!!
I had a tech (very difficult to find...35+ miles away) come out to the house to diagnose. He removed and repaired the convergence box. This process took about 5 days to find a tech, 5 days for the appointment to be scheduled, and 5 days for the fix...There were multiple fried circuits in the box. Although this corrected the "bow," the picture was not anywhere near normal. The picture was shrunk and slightly twisted, but more legible! This better, but not right correction cost was $220!...Nice guy...he cut me a break from the original quote of $395 since the fix wasn't right. He suspects another board may need to be removed and sent out (2 weeks or so at a cost of about $400-500 additional) to diagnose and hopefully make everything right.
I sat down and played with the adjustments (which would not work before the Convergence box was fixed) for about 2 hours and fudged the picture on the screen so that you cannot tell that anything was wrong...it looks new again...for now.
Thank you again for the help.
all of the sudden i turned my tv on and the screen lokked like a bow. the tv is only 1 1/2 years old. help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have messed with all the settings forever!!!!!!!!!! and then got online.
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