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Today I turned on my Pioneer Elite Pro plasma tv to watch a game and a very loud <pop> happened and now my picture is nothing but white wavy vertical lines!! What could have happened? I've only had it for 9 months!! Of course it's still under warranty - but has any one else had that problem? I'm sick about it!

Sorry to hear about your problem. I do not delve much into plasma so I have no idea what the problem could be. As with any electronic box under warranty, you have only three realistic options- fix it, return it for another, or return it for a refund. Sounds like it is broken hard, so there isn't much else you can do or try to do. Good luck.

If you have no warranty support, try and find a real repair shop and at least they may be able to repair it. I hear that power supplies are "part" repairable and usually the problem. (that from a techy friend who has had two off brand sets fixed this way).

A friend of mine is under the impression that plasma screens have a 1500 hour viewing life. I was unable to reason with him, and do not know the basis of this info. Any help much appreciated.

60,000 hours is the figure I have heard associated with Plasma viewing life.
1500 would be something on the order of two months continuous that wouldn't
seem right.

I also see where a recent survey by CR showed that Plasma and LCD flat screens
have about the same frequency of repairs at around 3%

Hello -

I'm sure that we all share your "angst" - but - although this "link" was in the Pioneer distant past, it "may" give you hope now !

DO NOT allow anyone to touch in any way that set until / unless PIONEER has authorized that specific individual / company to do so. Otherwise, you'll have "lost" any of that 12 month original warranty --
some Pioneer HDTVs have 18, in fact.

http://www.news.com/Pioneer-replaces-pl ... l?tag=nw.6

Good luck !
eli whitney

[email protected] wrote:I was unable to reason with him, and do not know the basis of this info.

Have him show you and then show us the links - it's bogus! If he can't show you then he is only repeating what he heard from someone else...

Richard, so is a 60,000 hours life bogus too? Is there a "life" figure for plasma TVs? I know most PC products have MTBF (mean time between failure) data, so I suspect TVs do too.

Hi jordanm-

Panasonic lists their 1080p sets at 100,000 hours of display from brand-new to 50% .

They also rate their .. 720p .. sets at 60,000 hours.

Here - http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-elec ... 001993#tv6


Although I did attempt, the Pioneer section I did locate wouldn't allow translation to English from Japanese!

Sorry !
eli whitney

Thnaks for the info. So what that means is a Panny 1080p plasma TV is estimated good for about 200,000 MTBF at from brand-new to 0%.