20 Most Recent Samsung PS42S5H 42 in. HD-Ready Plasma Television - Page 2 Questions & Answers

possible but likly to be drive panel

What dvb-t receiver you plug in depends entirely on where you live. Basically any dvb receiver box can be used with your plasma

As in there's blotches of red and green at the edges, but the image is still there?
If so, then your screen may have come into contact with magnets, or maybe the alignments are off (TVs align overlapping images in red, green, and blue).
As always, check with the manufacturer support lines, as they would have specific information for these kinds of scenarios.

Hi
This is down to your Y Buffer upper board, Take the back off you tv and look to your left, you will see a main Y sustain board and then to the left of that 2 x thin long rectangular boards connected to your main Y baord and screen
These thin boards controll the picture top and bottom, get the number of the top thin board and replace it, of the top of my head it is .... LJ41-02760A look on Google or Ebay, these can be replaced cheaply at around £20-£25
I would stress to do this ASAP as it might take your main Y Sustain board out and these are expensive to replace!!.
This should 98% of the time cure your problem.
Hope this helps

You may have a small signal board that is bad. Speak to your local TV tech. I don't beleve you screen is bad...if the stripes you say are traveling. Hope this gives you a clue!

NEDDS Y-BUFFER AND Y-MAIN BOARD

You need to change the main board

sounds like the lower y-sus buffer! take off the back and give me the pcb number should start with Lj92

Check the units main printed circuit board, as well as the power supply, you may find some large capacitors that have become low of faulty, especially if they have an electroststic glue holing them in place as this glue become conductive over time. Check the Capacitance(unless you can see the culprit,it will look like he exploded from top or bottom) and remove any glue from the printed circuit board. Good Luck.

Make sure it`s switched to CBVS, You`ll probably find that the TV is switched to RGB or S Video or SVHS. Try scarts as well as the phono`s. Ian

not necessarily, sometimes the connectors that feed the screen get old and dirty

If you have some electronic skills, open the TV and clean the connectors around where you see the symptoms and you may have a good chance to get if fix by doing that...
good luck

the tv needs e/w correction check pin -cution ckt properly most dry solder is possiblity

This is a problem I've seen many times with this set, the upper scan board is failing. You need it repaired, it could damage another component when it fails completely.

Try pressing the ARC, RATIO, 16:9 or 4:3 on your remote... sometimes it may be in the settings menu.

There are horizontal and vertical relays in plazmas that go out over time and cause this to happen , You can get an estimate from a local tv repair service in some cases they can give it to you over the phone. Good luck.

The x drive board is bad in the area you see as black. OR the cable came loose.

IF YOU ONLY CHANGED THE BUFFER, YOU SHOULD CHANGE THE Y-MAIN ALSO, THAT BUFFER TAKES OUT THE Y-MAIN AND VISA-VERSA

IT COULD BE THE Y LOWER BUFFER BOARD AS MINE TOTALLY WENT BLACK AND I WAS TOLD THAT IS THE NORMAL SYMTOMS

hi i just spoke to samsung because mine has got a similar problem and was told it could be the screen or the motherboard if its the screen it will cost around £400 to repair motherboard is less but could not give me a price