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Originally Posted by lovestoreadalot
 I am so mad I want to cry. I have a vizio 50 inch plasma tv that i've only had for 1 and a half years and the stupid thing has a purple line right down the middle of it. Only 6 months out of the warranty and it messes up.
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(I don't know much at all about this stuff, but...)
Does your TV have multiple means of connecting to your tuner/DVD player/DVR/cable box/whatever (or does it even do it on the internal tuner, if it has one?). We've found odd things happening with our plasma TV over different times, and, firstly, making sure those connections are secure is a good start (we had this problem within days of buying it). Second, trying different cables (sometimes it's just the connector). Thirdly, try a different connection. We recently started having a problem with the RCA connection, actually causing error codes to appear on TV, and suggested by the service tech to be something wrong with the board inside. We switched to the RGB connectors, and haven't had a problem since.
I don't know if any of this will solve it, but it might be worth a try if you haven't already. I'd give you a hug if I could, because, unlike The Loved One, when things like that go wrong I want to go all Elvis on its shiny cyclopean face.
Cheers,
Marc