oily resudue or film on screen of NEW 40' 1080p RCA tv
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 9:15 am
I bought this yesterday at the local kmart, it was NEW, in a factory sealed box. It was $429, normaly like $569. Its rca model 40LA45RQ ,
a 40' lcd 1080p hdtv.
I have always bought RCA hdtvs and have never had this issue with them. The screen appears to have some kind of a residue on it, like a dirty film. Its thicker in some places then in others, so its not uniform. When you shine a LED flashlight on the screen, you can see it plain as day. you can tell it was cleaned at the factory because of the streaks where this film is not a bad. This film/scum is NOT EVENLY PLACED on the screeen, so I doubt its any kind of coating. Anyway, so I decided to try to try to clean it with some phillips hdtv cleaning gel. It took little of it off, about 20%. I cleaned it 3 times with 2 CLEAN soft micro fibre cloths, spraying the fluid ONTO THE CLOTH not the screen, and wiped it from top to bottom.
It removed SOME of the scum, but not all. There are no scratches on lcd at all, spotless.
If you take your finger wad LIGHTLY press on the scum and move finger, it wipes CLEAN. Any ideas how to get the rest of this residue off or what Im doing wrong? Picture is flawless, ultra sharp and bight, and you only notice it when DIRECT SUNLIGHT hits the screen. otherwide its invisible to the eye. I would like to remove whats left because I am sure its degrading the picture to SOME degree.
Thanks in advance for your help, and Aloha!
a 40' lcd 1080p hdtv.
I have always bought RCA hdtvs and have never had this issue with them. The screen appears to have some kind of a residue on it, like a dirty film. Its thicker in some places then in others, so its not uniform. When you shine a LED flashlight on the screen, you can see it plain as day. you can tell it was cleaned at the factory because of the streaks where this film is not a bad. This film/scum is NOT EVENLY PLACED on the screeen, so I doubt its any kind of coating. Anyway, so I decided to try to try to clean it with some phillips hdtv cleaning gel. It took little of it off, about 20%. I cleaned it 3 times with 2 CLEAN soft micro fibre cloths, spraying the fluid ONTO THE CLOTH not the screen, and wiped it from top to bottom.
It removed SOME of the scum, but not all. There are no scratches on lcd at all, spotless.
If you take your finger wad LIGHTLY press on the scum and move finger, it wipes CLEAN. Any ideas how to get the rest of this residue off or what Im doing wrong? Picture is flawless, ultra sharp and bight, and you only notice it when DIRECT SUNLIGHT hits the screen. otherwide its invisible to the eye. I would like to remove whats left because I am sure its degrading the picture to SOME degree.
Thanks in advance for your help, and Aloha!