I have not had a buggy update but I only have a few hundred completed over the years.
But the age is not helping here. Most are over 5 years old and often require a new board (not always the same one.) I like Shopjimmy since they have repair videos to watch and sometimes boards if you want to try self repair and change one.
My Samsung Series 4-450 Plasma TV has developed a strange problem since yesterday: when I first turn on the TV, everything is normal. But after running around 2 minutes, the picture goes black, while the sound is fine. If I turn off the TV and turn it back on, everything is fine. The picture stays on for the rest of the day.
This has happened three times. I checked all the connections. Popped a disc in the BluRay player which is on the second HDMI input - no picture as well, so it's not the cable box, but the TV that is acting strange.
Have not done a firmware update in a couple of years, but worried that recent updates are buggy.
Any ideas on the problem/solution?

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