Sony KDS-R60XBR1 Optical Block replacement
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jacknoah
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Sony KDS-R60XBR1 Optical Block replacement
I've been trying to get some information concerning the optical block problem Sony has with the SXRD XBR1. What are the symptoms when it starts to go bad? My set is starting to get some faint, wide, vertical lines from the top to the bottom on the left side of the screen. Sometime it is not noticable. It is especially noticable when there is a solid color image, like when watching football and the green field covers a lot of the screen. And when I first turn on the set, it is real bad until the projection bulb gets up to full brightness as it warms up. Could it be the projecion bulb? I guess if it is the optical block Sony will replace it. I also purchaced the extended warrenty from Best Buy. I would like to have a little knowledge before hand before I call them. Thanks!
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Richard
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Areas of discoloration is the main complaint and due to the design it takes about an hour to settle into place for the best uniformity; that is part and parcel of how SXRD works and is not covered unless it never becomes fully uniform.
In your case it does sound like burn-in/image retention of 4:3 content... are you watching SD with black or gray side bars? That typically is not covered by anybody...
Either way, the problem you have should be seen with a pattern generator outputting a full field white raster and then gating the red, green and blue colors. It is upon the service center to determine if you are covered under warranty and if you want to exercise the Sony extended warranty on the light engine you must call a Sony service center for inspection. While you may have an extended warranty which technically negates this recall that insurance provider will no doubt exercise their right to have Sony cover this so again, save yourself some hassle and have a Sony service center doing the work. If you are outside of your manufacturers warranty then you must contact your extended warranty provider to arrange for service and they will select a service center they have a contract with.
viewtopic.php?t=8327
Areas of discoloration is the main complaint and due to the design it takes about an hour to settle into place for the best uniformity; that is part and parcel of how SXRD works and is not covered unless it never becomes fully uniform.
In your case it does sound like burn-in/image retention of 4:3 content... are you watching SD with black or gray side bars? That typically is not covered by anybody...
Either way, the problem you have should be seen with a pattern generator outputting a full field white raster and then gating the red, green and blue colors. It is upon the service center to determine if you are covered under warranty and if you want to exercise the Sony extended warranty on the light engine you must call a Sony service center for inspection. While you may have an extended warranty which technically negates this recall that insurance provider will no doubt exercise their right to have Sony cover this so again, save yourself some hassle and have a Sony service center doing the work. If you are outside of your manufacturers warranty then you must contact your extended warranty provider to arrange for service and they will select a service center they have a contract with.
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rlbray
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The AVS forum on rear projection sets has a thread (over 18,000 posts) on the XBR1. For the last year, the majority of the posts revolve around the optical block issue.
The majority of the OB issues involve color uniformity (I've personally had two replacements for that reason). However, maybe 5-10% are because of "image retention" where the set retains lines from 4:3 content or some image that was on the screen for a long time. Sony has been replacing OBs for that image retention issue.
The majority of the OB issues involve color uniformity (I've personally had two replacements for that reason). However, maybe 5-10% are because of "image retention" where the set retains lines from 4:3 content or some image that was on the screen for a long time. Sony has been replacing OBs for that image retention issue.