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Brent Hanson

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Hello...

First time poster here (so take it kind of easy on me!)

Here's my problem... I recently moved into a new house. My tv had to get moved twice (from my old house to my fiances house temporarily and then to our new house a few weeks later). When I turned the TV on, the convergence was all messed up and the color looked horrible. Everything has a slight tint of blue. Grass looks kind of gray-ish instead of green. I played around with the service mode settings (don't worry - I wrote down all of my original settings before I did anything!) but I couldn't get it to look normal. Here's an idea of how it looks right now:



Anyway, I thought maybe it was a problem with the guns. I'm also having a problem with red color kind of "popping" in for about a half second and then it goes back to normal (normal being all blue-ish and gray-ish looking). Yesterday, though, I hooked up the new cable box and turned to ESPN HD. Everything looked absolutely perfect. So my question to y'all is... is there anyway I can take my color settings from HD - I'm assuming it was 720p as I think that's what our cable box supports.

I'm getting married and just moved into a house this year (read: I have no money and there is no way my fiance will let me pay $600 for someone to come service the tv). Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Brent
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Gregg Loewen

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most likely the voltage controls (G2 / Bias) were jarred during the move. These are on the focus block, and you will see them after removing the speaker grill cover and service panel. There will be a huge amount glue on them which will have to be removed. The controls are very sensitive and you will want to have a gray scale image (read: black and white) image on the screen when you adjust them.

Please note that I have serviced MANY DISPLAYS AFTER the client has attempted to adjust the voltage controls by themselves.

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Brent Hanson

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Gregg -

Is this something I can safely do by myself? I'm confortable with technology for the most part, but I guess I don't want to just open it up and start messing around if I don't have some idea what I'm trying to do first.

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just be very gentle with the trim pots. ....a quarter turn and you will have likely turned them too much
 

Brent Hanson

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One last question-

Will this affect my HD at all? The color looks absolutely spot on. Are the controls for HD complete seperate for regular tv?

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Brent
 

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Just going to give this one more bump to see if anyone can answer my last question....

Thanks in advance,
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absolutely, the changes will be global.

If the move only affected one source type / scan rate, then it is not an issue with your voltage / bias controls. ...time to check your sources and cabling.

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Brent Hanson

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That's the thing - my cable box does HD. So basically, the non-HD cable looks god awful (looks fine on other tv's in the house), but four HD channels from the same box (so, same source/same cables) looks terrific...

Any other ideas?

Thanks much,
Brent
 

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