Samsung LN40A550 - Negative Image - Please help

Thank you very much for the prompt reply.

Just need couple of things before I call Samsung customer service

1. Is there any technical term for this problem?
2. I recently connected my PC to the PC-Input of the TV. Do you think if that caused the problem to occur?
3. Do you by any chance what is the name of the board that could be broken.
4. Since it is more than 1 year I purchased the TV I guess I have to pay myself for the repair. Is there anyway around this? The reason I am asking this is that I had a old Sony Rear projection TV and the heat of the bulb melted the plastic around it. This happened 5 years after the TV was purchased and yet Sony replaced me with an alternate TV.

dvsrikanth,

1. Well, they seem to have the Moire effect, but negative image is pretty descriptive. They're likely not going to diagnose it right there, but between "moire" and "negative", you should get to a technician.
2. I wouldn't think the PC input had any affect, unless it was maybe pushed up against the wall with the PC cable attached. If not, it's probably not the result of using the PC Cable. If you want to test this theory, attach it again and see what happens.
3. That's up to the technician to decide. If I quote a board and someone replaces it and it's the wrong one, I don't want to take that responsibility.
4. How much more than a year? If it's under 15 months, you can register the unit online first, which will get you an additional 3 months. If it's older than that, post it here and I'll see what I can do - but I can't promise or suggest that I can promise anything.

Usually melting issues are handled a little differently, so I can't speak to that either directly or comparatively.

Keep me posted.

--HDTech

Did you ever get to a solution on this? Unfortunately iam out of warranty.. Not sure how big$ of a repair this is?