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I'm a sad panda
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February 10, 2008, 03:14:32 PM »
So last night we wanted to watch a movie. I have netflix and through it's view on demand service we decided to watch grindhouse. So I hook my laptop up to our 5 month old 32" lcd tv, the movie played fine. So this morning I go to turn on the tv and nothing, it's stuck in standby. After some searching on google I come to find this is a common problem as somehow a power surge through the d-sub cable can screw up the mainboard and or power supply. From what I have read if you want to use the tv as a monitor for a computer the safest thing is to use the hdmi port and a converter to connect to your pc. Wish I had known this yesterday
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February 10, 2008, 04:49:04 PM »
ouch!!!! is that common with all TV's?
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February 11, 2008, 08:22:56 AM »
I haven't had the issue with the Westy.. But I did tell you the one issue you I have is that will sometimes come out of sync when it changes resolution... Just turn it off and on again or change inputs and it's fine.
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February 11, 2008, 08:25:19 AM »
Unplug the tv for the day and see if it resets to factory settings or whatnot.
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February 11, 2008, 11:10:16 AM »
Did the unplug for a day thing and nada. I guess the problem stems from plugging and unplugging inputs while the tv is on. I dunno exactly what TVs are affected but I know polaroid and I have seen posts about sharp and vizio doing this as well.
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